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120 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
Donna Micaela looked sharply at Passafiore.
“ What do you wish me to do about it ? You cannot
mean that I am to go down into the quarry to Falco
Falcone ?”
Passafiore looks down and dares not answer
anything.
She explains to him what that same Falco has
made her suffer. He has frightened away her
workmen. He has set himself against her dearest wish.
All of a sudden Passafiore falls on his knees. He
dares not go a step nearer to her than he is, but he
falls on his knees.
He implores her to understand the importance of
it. She does not know, she does not understand
who Falco is. Falco is a great man. Ever since
Passafiore was a little child he has heard of him.
All his life long he has longed to come out to the
quarry and live with him. All his cousins went to
Falco; his whole race were with him. But the
priest had set his heart that Passafiore should not
go. He apprenticed him to a tailor; only think, to
a tailor! He talked to him, and said that he should
not go. It was such a terrible sin to live like Falco.
Passafiore had also struggled against it for many
years for Don Matteo’s sake. But at last he had
not been able to resist; he had gone to the quarry.
And now he has not been with Falco more than a
year before the latter is quite destroyed. It is as
if the sun had gone out in the sky. His whole life
is ruined.
Passafiore looks at Donna Micaela. He sees that
she is listening to him, and understands him.
He reminds Donna Micaela that she had helped a
jettatore and an adulteress. Why should she be hard
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