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326 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
and she was sure that she would be allowed to speak
to him. But the director of the prison sent her to
the prison doctor.
The latter forbade her to speak to Gaetano.
“You wish to see the prisoner?” he said. “You
shall not do it. Do you say that he loves you and
believes you to be dead? Let him think it! Let
him believe it! He has bowed his head to Death.
He suffers no longing. Do you wish him to know
that you are alive, so that he may begin to long?
You wish, perhaps, to kill him? I will tell you
something; if he begins to long for life, he will be
dead within three months.”
He spoke so positively that Donna Micaela
understood that she must give up seeing Gaetano. But
what a disappointment, what a disappointment!
When she came home, she felt like one who has
dreamt so vividly that he cannot, even after he is
awake, rouse himself from his visions. She could
not realize that all her hopes had been a mockery.
She surprised herself time after time thinking:
“When I have saved Gaetano.” But now she no
longer had any hope of saving him.
She thought now of one, now of another
enterprise, on which she wished to embark. Should she
drain the plain, or should she begin to quarry marble
on Etna. She hesitated and wondered. She could
not keep her mind on anything.
The same indolence that had taken possession of
Donna Micaela crept through the whole town. It
was soon plain that everything that depended on
people who did not believe in the Christchild of
Diamante was badly managed and unsuccessful.
Even the Etna railway was conducted in the wrong
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