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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST

Here he broke off and threw himself down,
weeping aloud before the image. “Forgive me that I
could not,” he cried, “and help him in spite of it.
You know that when they sentenced him I promised
to do it for his sake that you might save him. But
now I have not been able to speak of you, and you
will not help him.”

Donna Micaela hardly knew how it happened, but
she and little Rosalia, who loved Gandolfo, were
beside him at almost the same moment. They drew
him to them, and both kissed him, and said that no
one had spoken like him; no one, no one. Did he
not see that they were weeping? San Sebastiano
was pleased with him. Donna Micaela put a ring
on the boy’s finger and round about him the people
were waving many-colored silk handkerchiefs, that
glistened like waves of the sea in the strong light
from the Cathedral.

“ Viva Gaetano! viva Gandolfo!” cried the people.

And flowers and fruits and silk handkerchiefs and
jewels came raining down about little Gandolfo.
Donna Micaela was crowded away from him almost
with violence. But it never occurred to her to be
frightened. She stood among the surging people
and wept. The tears streamed down her face, and
she wept for joy that she could weep. That was the
greatest blessing.

She wished to force her way to Gandolfo; she
could not thank him enough. He had told her that
Gaetano loved her. When he had quoted the words,
“Now may her will be done who was just carried
by,” she had suddenly understood that Gaetano had
believed that it was she lying under the pall of the
Alagonas.

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