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diamante
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IV
diamante.
Micaela Palmeri went to Diamante in company
with Giannita. They had sat down in the
mail-stage at three o’clock in the morning, and had
traveled along the beautiful road encircling the
lower slope of Etna. But it had been quite dark.
They had seen nothing of the surrounding country.
The young signorina, however, did not complain of
this. She sat with closed eyes, absorbed in her great
grief. Even when it began to grow light, she would
not lift her eyes to look out. Not before they were
quite near Diamante could Giannita persuade her to
gaze at the landscape.
" Now look! That is Diamante, your future
home," she said.
Micaela Palmeri had then beheld the mighty Etna,
which hid a large portion of the sky. Directly
behind the mountain the sun rose, and when the
upper edge of its disk peeped forth it looked as if
the whole mountain top was on fire and sent out
sparks and rays. But Giannita exhorted her to look
towards the other side.
And there she saw the whole jagged mountain
range, which surrounds Etna like a turreted wall,
stand blushing in the sunrise.
But Giannita pointed in another direction. It was
not that she wanted her to see, not that.
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