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152 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
side; fell deeper and deeper; broke loose stones,
and certainly shattered itself to pieces. At last a
splash was heard down in Simeto.
“ What right have you to carve Madonnas ?” she
asked Gaetano.
He stood silent. He had never seen Donna
Micaela thus.
In the moment when she rose up before him she
had become tall and stately. The beauty that always
came and went in her, like an uneasy guest, was
enthroned in her face. She looked cold and
inflexible; a woman to win and conquer.
“Then you still believe in God, since you carve
Madonnas ? “ she said.
He breathed hurriedly. Now it was he who was
paralyzed. He had been a believer himself. He
knew how he had wounded her. He saw that he
had forfeited her love. He had made a terrible,
infinite chasm between them.
He must speak, must win her over to his side.
He began again, but feebly and falteringly.
She listened quietly for a while. Then she
interrupted him almost compassionately.
“ How did you become so ? ”
“I thought of Sicily,” he said submissively.
“You thought of Sicily,” she repeated
thoughtfully. “And why did you come home?”
“ I came home to cause an insurrection.”
It was as if they had spoken of an illness, a chill,
that he had contracted, and that could quite easily
be cured.
“You came home to be our ruin,” she said,
sternly.
“As you will; as you will,” he said, complying.
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