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the coming-home
349
Not for a moment does he believe that it is an
illusion or an apparition. He sees instantly that she is
real and living. But just on that account . . . and
then because the prison has taken his strength away
from him, so that he cannot be considered a well
person ....
He feels terribly embarrassed at not being able to
hold himself upright. He clutches the air with his
hands, endeavors to get support against the
doorpost, but it is of no avail. His limbs will not bear
him, he slips down the steps, striking his head on a
stone.
There he lies quiet, as though he were dead.
All rush forward, carry him in, run for the barber,
surgeon and doctor, prescribe, talk and propose a
thousand ways to help him.
Donna Elisa and Pacifica finally get him into one
of the bed-chambers. Luca drives out the people
and stands watch outside the closed door. Donna
Micaela, who has come in with the rest, he has first
of all taken by the hand and led out. She could not
be allowed to remain inside. Luca had himself seen
Gaetano fall, as though he had got a blow across the
head, when he caught sight of her.
The doctor arrives, and he makes one attempt
after the other to awaken Gaetano. It is useless.
The doctor thinks that he has received a dangerous
blow on the head, when he fell. He does not know
if he will succeed in bringing him to.
The fainting by itself was nothing, but this blow
against the hard edge of the stone step. . . .
Within is anxiety and bustle. The poor things,
shut out, cannot do anything but listen and wait.
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