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fra gaetano 4 7
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grandfather; she recognized all the authoritative
Alagona gentlemen.
" You talk like that, Donna Elisa, because you
know nothing," said the boy. " No, no, you know
nothing, you don’t know why I must serve God.
But you shall know it now! You see, it was long
ago. Father and mother were very poor, and we
had nothing to eat, and then father went away to
seek work, and he never came back, and mother and
we children were starving. Then mother said:
’ We will go and try to find father!’ And we went.
And night came and it rained heavily, and in one
place a whole river ran across the road. Mother
asked at a house, if we might remain there over
night. No, they turned us out. Mother and we
children stood weeping on the road. Then mother
tied up her clothes and stepped down into the
stream, which rushed across the road. She had
little sister on her arm and big sister by the hand,
and a large bundle on her head. I walked behind
as close as I could. I saw mother make a false step.
The bundle on her head fell into the stream, mother
grasped after it and so lost little sister. She tried
to catch little sister, and big sister was snatched
away. Mother threw herself after them, and the
river took her also. I became frightened, and ran
on land. Father Josef has told me that I escaped in
order that I might serve God for the dead ones and
pray for them. And for that reason it was first
decided, that I should become a monk, and that I
now wanted to go to Etna and be a hermit. There
is nothing left for me to do, Donna Elisa, except to
serve God,"
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