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the bells of san pasquale. 87
tlemen, whom the great Van Dyck had pa.nted.
Because she had often said to them: " Ah, signor,
you’ve been beautiful, but so dark and so pale and
so sad, you could not have been. And you have
not had such flashing eyes. This the master has
added, that painted you." But when Donna Micaela
saw Gaetano, she found that a face could have all
this, and that the master had no need of adding
anything. Therefore she apologized to the noble
gentlemen.
Meanwhile Gaetano had found the long
candle-boxes which stood under the desk in the same place
where they had always stood. And he gave her the
candle, but he did not know what it cost, and said
that she might come in and pay for it later. When
she asked for something to wrap around it he was in
such a state of anxiety that she was obliged to help
him search.
It troubled her that such a man should think of
going to Argentine.
He let Donna Micaela wrap up the candle herself
and stood watching her meanwhile. She wished
she had been able to tell him not to look at her
now, when her face reflected only hopelessness and
misery.
Gaetano had not examined her features more than
a moment when he sprang up on a small step-ladder,
took down an image from the top shelf, and came
towards her with it. It was a small gilded and
painted wooden angel, a little San Michele in strife
with the arch-enemy, which he drew forth out of
paper and cotton.
This he handed to Donna Micaela, and begged her
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