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“He has taken away the power of a jettatore ,”
said one.
“ Is it not he who is as great in evil as the jettatort
who has power over him?” answered the father,
bitterly.
They made no other attempts to defend the image.
Everything that they said seemed only to make the
matter worse.
Several looked round for Donna Micaela, who was
also present. She stood among the crowd, heard
and saw everything, but made no attempt to save the
image.
When Father Gondo had said that the image was
Antichrist she had been terrified, and when he
showed that the people of Diamante had only asked
for the good of this world, her terror had grown.
She had not dared to do anything.
But when he said that she and all the others were
in the power of Antichrist, something in her rose
against him. “No, no,” she said, “it cannot be
so.” If she should believe that an evil power had
governed her during so many years, her reason
would give way. And her reason began to defend
itself.
Her faith in the supernatural broke in her like a
string too tightly stretched. She could not follow
it any longer.
With infinite swiftness everything of the
supernatural that she herself had experienced flashed
through her mind, and she passed sentence on it.
Was there a single proven miracle? She said to
herself that there were coincidences, coincidences.
It was like unravelling a skein. From what she
herself had experienced she passed to the miracles
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