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(1909) [MARC] [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Pauline Bancroft Flach
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THE HOME-COMING

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misfortune. He finds the door to the
summer-palace unlocked, takes the stairs in two bounds, and
bursts open the door to the music-room without
knocking.

Donna Micaela is sitting there, wondering if he
will come now in the night or the next morning.
Then she hears his step outside in the gallery.
She is seized with terror; how will he be? She
has longed so unspeakably for him. Will he really
be so that all that longing will be satisfied?

And will no more walls rise between them ?
Will they for once be able to tell each other
everything? Will they speak of love, and not of
socialism? ”

When he opens the door she tries to go to meet
him, but she cannot; she is trembling in every
limb. She sits down and hides her face in her
hands.

She expects him to throw his arms about her and
kiss her, but that he does not do. It is not Gaetano’s
way to do what people expect of him.

As soon as he could stand upright he has thrown
on his clothes to come to see her. He is apparently
wildly gay when he comes now. He would have
liked her to take it lightly also. He will not be
agitated. He had fainted in the forenoon. He
could stand nothing.

He stands quietly beside her until she regains
her composure. “You have weak nerves,” he says.
That is actually all he says.

She and Donna Elisa and every one is convinced
that he has come to clasp her in his arms and say
that he loves her. But just for that reason it is
impossible for Gaetano. Some people are malicious;

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