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i so the miracles of* antichrist
was away. Just then the door opened, and the bell
rang frightfully. She only wept and counted.
Then some one said: " Donna Elisa, Donna Elisa ! "
And it was Gaetano.
" O God, why have you come home ? " she cried.—
" Why, you’ve sold all your images so I was obliged to
come home to carve new ones for you."—" But how
did you find it out ? "—" I went down to the
mail-coach at two o’clock last night. I met Rosa Alfari,
and she told me everything."—" How fortunate that
it occurred to you to go down to the mail-coach ! "—
" Yes, it certainly was ! " said Gaetano.
And in less than an hour Gaetano was again busy
in his workshop, and Donna Elisa, who had nothing
to do in her empty shop, kept coming to the door
continually to look at him. Well, well, to think
that he actually stood there again carving! She
could not let five minutes pass without coming to
look at him.
But when Donna Micaela heard that he had re~
turned, she felt no joy, but rather anger and despair.
For she feared that Gaetano would come and tempt
her.
She had heard that a rich English lady had come
to Diamante the day the bells rang. It affected her
deeply, when she heard that it was the lady with
the image of Christ who had come. It had then
come as soon as she had invoked its aid. The rain
and the ringing were its doings.
She now endeavored to rejoice at the thought,
that a miracle had happened for her sake. To feel
herself encompassed by God’s grace was more to
her than all earthly happiness. She prayed that
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