Note: Translator Pauline Bancroft Flach died in 1966, less than 70 years ago. Therefore, this work is protected by copyright, restricting your legal rights to reproduce it. However, you are welcome to view it on screen, as you do now. Read more about copyright.
Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - First book - III. The God-sister
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has been proofread at least once.
(diff)
(history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång.
(skillnad)
(historik)
52 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
sisters. She had adored the little child in the silk
dress; she was the most beautiful thing she had ever
seen. She had almost become her idol.
She knew this much about her sister, that she
was still unmarried and lived in Catania. Her
mother was dead, and she had not been willing to
leave her father, and had stayed as hostess in his
house. “I must manage to see her,” thought
Giannita.
Whenever Giannita met a well-appointed
carriage she thought: “ Perhaps it is my god-sister
driving there.” And she stared at everybody to see
if any of them was like the little girl with the thick
hair and the big eyes.
Her heart began to beat wildly. She had always
longed for her god-sister. She herself was still
unmarried, because she liked a young wood-carver,
Gaetano Alagona, and he had never shown the
slightest desire to marry her. Giannita had often
been angry with him for that, and not least had it
irritated her never to be able to invite her god-sister
to her wedding.
She had been so proud of her, too. She had
thought herself finer than the others, because she
had such a god-sister. What if she should now go
to see her, since she was in the town? It would
give a lustre to the whole journey.
As she thought and thought of it, a newspaper-boy
came running. “ Giornale da Siciliahe called.
“ The Palmeri affair! Great embezzlements !”
Giannita seized the boy by the neck as he rushed
by. “ What are you saying ?” she screamed. “ You
lie, you lie!” and she was ready to strike him.
“Buy my paper, signora, before you strike me,”
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
