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DON FERRANTE
A few days later Gaetano was standing in his
workshop, cutting grape-leaves on rosary beads. It was
Sunday, but Gaetano did not feel it on his
conscience that he was working, for it was a work in
God’s honor.
A great restlessness and anxiety had come over
him. It had come into his mind that the time he
had been living at peace with Donna Elisa was now
drawing to a close, and he thought that he must
soon start out into the world.
For great poverty had come to Sicily, and he saw
want wandering from town to town and from house
to house like the plague, and it had come to Diamante
also.
No one ever came now to Donna Elisa’s shop to
buy anything. The little images of the saints that
Gaetano made stood in close rows on the shelves,
and the rosaries hung in great bunches under the
counter. And Donna Elisa was in great want and
sorrow, because she could not earn anything.
That was a sign to Gaetano that he must leave
Diamante, go out into the world, emigrate if there
was no other way. For it could not be working to
the honor of God to carve images that never were
worshipped, and to turn rosary beads that never
glided through a petitioner’s fingers.
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