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208 the miracles of antichrist
Etna that he could have been a rich man; but every
bit of it went to the monastery.
Fra Felice had suffered an even greater grief than
for the monastery on account of the monastery
church. It had been desecrated during war, with
bloody fights and other atrocities, so that mass could
never be held there. But that he could not
understand either. The church, where he had made his
vows, was always holy to Fra Felice.
It was his greatest sorrow that his church had
fallen entirely into ruin. He had looked on when
Englishmen had come and bought pulpit and lectern
and choir chairs. He had not been able to
prevent collectors from Palermo coming and taking the
chandeliers and pictures and brass hooks.
However much he had wished it, he had not been able to
do anything to save his church. But he hated those
church-pillagers; and when Donna Micaela saw him
so angry, she thought that Miss Tottenham had
wished to take some of his treasures from him.
But the fact was that now, when Fra Felice’s
church was emptied, and no one came any more to
plunder there, he had begun to think of doing
something to embellish it once more, and he had had his
eye on the collection of images of the saints in the
possession of the rich English lady. At her
enter-tainment, when she had been kind and gentle towards
every one, he had dared to ask her for her beautiful
Madonna, who had a dress of velvet and eyes like
the sky. And his request had been granted
That morning Fra Felice had swept and dusted
the church, and put flowers on the altar, before he
went to fetch the image. But when he came to the
hotel, the Englishwoman had changed her mindr
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