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70 the miracles of antichrist.
and it was as if it had said four words. It was as
if the Christchild had answered a four-fold Yea to
my prayer.
" This gave me courage, Giannita, so that to-day
I rode up to court to see my father. But he turned
not his eyes towards me during the whole time he
stood before his judges.
" I availed myself of the opportunity when they
were taking him away, and threw myself on my knees
before him in one of the narrow passages.
Giannita, he suffered the soldiers to push me aside,
without granting me one word.
" Now, don’t you see that God hates me. When
I heard you talking about four o’clock yesterday
afternoon, I became frightened. The Christchild brings
me fresh misfortunes, I thought. It hates me, who
has betrayed my father."
When she had said this, she was silent at last,
listening breathlessly to what Giannita would say.
And Giannita related to her her history.
" Lo, is it not strange," she said finally, " I have not
been in Catania for twelve years, and then wholly
unexpectedly I am allowed to come here. And I
know of nothing at all, but as soon as I set foot on
the street here, I learn of your misfortune. God
has sent for me, I said to myself. He has called me
hither to help my godsister."
Signorina Palmeri’s eyes turned anxiously and
inquiringly towards her. Now the blow would surely
come. She summoned all her courage to meet it.
" What do you wish me to do for you, godsister ? "
said Giannita. " Do you know of what I was
thinking, as I walked on the street ? I will ask her if she
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