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MONGIBELLO
37
Gaetano behaved himself very badly. He turned
away from her and rushed to the door. He did not
say a word of thanks to her for coming. He knew
that Father Josef had expected it, but he could not.
When he thought of the great Mongibello that he
never would see, and of Donna Elisa, who would
never come again, and of the school, and of the
shut-in cloister garden, and of a whole restricted
life! Father Josef never could expect so much of
him; Gaetano had to run away.
It was high time too. When Gaetano was ten
steps from the door, he began to cry. It was too
bad about Donna Elisa. Oh, that she should be
obliged to travel home alone! That Gaetano could
not go with her!
He heard Father Josef coming, and he hid his
face against the wall. If he could only stop
sobbing!
Father Josef came sighing and murmuring to
himself, as he always did. When he came up to
Gaetano he stopped, and sighed more than ever.
“It is Mongibello, Mongibello,” said Father
Josef; “no one can resist Mongibello.”
Gaetano answered him by weeping more violently.
“It is the mountain calling,” murmured Father
Josef. “Mongibello is like the whole earth; it has
all the earth’s beauty and charm and vegetation and
expanses and wonders. The whole earth comes at
once and calls him.”
Gaetano felt that Father Josef spoke the truth.
He felt as if the earth stretched out strong arms to
catch him. He felt that he needed to bind himself
fast to the wall in order not to be torn away.
“ It is better for him to see the earth,” said Father
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