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82 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
him!” Don Ferrante laughed. “You ought to
have begun with that. Now you have made me
angry.” She still knelt and looked up at him.
“It is well,” he said, “for you hereafter to know
how you shall behave.” Still she knelt. Then he
asked: “Shall I tell him, or will you?”
Donna Micaela was ashamed that she had humbled
herself. She rose and answered imperiously: “I
shall tell him, but not till the last day. And you
shall not let him notice anything.”
“No, I shall not,” he said, and mimicked her.
“The less talk about it, the better for me.”
But when he was gone Donna Micaela laughed
at Don Ferrante for believing that he could do
what he liked with her father. She knew some one
who would help her.
In the Cathedral at Diamante there is a
miracle-working image of the Madonna, and this is its
story.
Long, long ago a holy hermit lived in a cave on
Monte Chiaro. And this hermit dreamed one night
that in the harbor of Catania lay a ship loaded with
images of the saints, and among these there was one
so holy that Englishmen, who are richer than
anybody else, would have paid its weight in gold for it.
As soon as the hermit awoke from this dream he
started for Catania. In the harbor lay a ship loaded
with images of the saints, and among the images
was one of the holy Madonna that was more holy
than all the others. The hermit begged the captain
not to carry that image away from Sicily, but to
give it to him. But the captain refused. “ I shall
take it to England,” he said, “and the Englishmen
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