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She also wrote new letters to Gaetano ; but still
no answer came.
Then she began to try to believe what seemed to
her impossible. She tried to initiate into her soul
the consciousness that Gaetano had ceased to love her.
As this certainty increased she began to lock
herself in her room. She became afraid of people and
preferred solitude.
Day by day she grew weaker. She walked deeply
bowed, and even her beautiful eyes seemed to lose
life and luster.
After a few weeks she grew so weak that she could
no longer hold herself upright, but was obliged to lie
all day on a sofa. She was a prey to an ailment
which slowly took away from her all vitality. She
saw that she was nearing death, and she feared to
die. But there was nothing for her to do. There
was but one remedy. That, however, did not come.
While Donna Micaela thus slowly seemed to glide
out of life, preparations were being made in
Diamante to celebrate the feast of San Sebastiano, which
comes towards the end of January.
It was the greatest of all feasts celebrated in
Diamante, but during the last years it had not been
observed with the usual display, because too great
distress and gloom had oppressed the minds of the
people.
But this year, immediately after the insurrection
had failed, and while Sicily was still filled with strange
troops, and while the beloved heroes of the people
languished in prison, it was proposed to keep the
feast with old-fashioned pomp, because this, it was
said, was not the time to neglect the saints.
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