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i so the miracles of* antichrist
fully understood what it meant, that he was gone,
imprisoned, that she never more should see him.
She was obliged to sit down to keep from falling,
it seemed as if her heart would cease beating, and
she closed her eyes.
While she sat thus she had a vision.
She seemed to find herself all at once at home in
the palace in Catania. She sits in the lofty
vestibule, reading, and she is a gay young lady, Signorina
Palmeri. A footman then enters, ushering in a
pedler. It is a young, handsome fellow, with a
sprig of almond blossoms in his buttonhole, on his
head he carries a board full of small images of saints,
carved in wood.
She buys a few of the images, and in the
meantime the young man’s eyes devour all the works of
art in the vestibule. She asks him if he would like
to see their collections. Of course he would. And
she herself accompanies him and shows him.
What he sees affords him such great pleasure that
she thinks he ought to become a real artist, and she
promises herself not to forget him. She asks him
where he lives.—He replies : " In Diamante "—" Is
that faraway ? "—" Four miles by the mail coach."—
" And by railroad ? "—" There is no railroad to
Diamante, signorina."—" You must build one."—
" We are too poor. Ask the rich people of Catania to
build us a railroad ! "
When he has said this he goes to the door, but
turns, and comes and gives her his almond blossoms.
It was an acknowledgment for all the lovely things
he had been permitted to see.
When Donna Micaela opened her eyes, she did
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