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126 228 . the miracles of antichrist
you, it has enticed you into its snare and made
world-thralls of you. Is it not so ? Perhaps some
one can step forth and say the contrary? Perhaps
he has heard that some one not present here has
asked the image for heavenly grace."
" It has conjured a jettatore," some one said.
" Is it not he, who is just as great an evil-doer as
the jettatore, that gains ascendency over him ? "
questioned the Father grimly.
So no more attempts were made to defend the
image. Everything said seemed only to make the
matter worse.
Several looked around for Donna Micaela, who
also was present. She stood in the midst of the
crowd, heard and saw all, yet did nothing to save
the image.
For when Father Gondo had said that the image
was Antichrist, she had become frightened, and
when he indicated that the Diamante people had
only desired the good things of this world, her
terror had increased. She had not dared to do
anything.
But when he said that she and all of them were
under Antichrist’s dominion, there was something
within her that rebelled against him. " No, no," she
said, " it cannot be so." Were she to believe that
an evil power had ruled her during so many years, it
would deprive her of reason. And her reason began
to defend itself.
Belief in the supernatural snapped within her like
a string too tensely stretched. She could no longer
follow him. With infinite speed her thoughts
explored everything which she herself had experienced
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