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190 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
would not give her half so much pleasure as to listen
to dear Master Pamphilio.
When Donna Micaela saw Donna Concetta, she
fell to dreaming. Oh, to sit so on the platform,
where her beloved was speaking; to sit so day in
and day out and worship. She knew whom that
would have suited.
When Master Pamphilio had finished speaking
Donna Micaela went forward and asked him to help
her. It was hard for him to say no, on account
of the thousand prayers that were written in her
eyes. But Donna Concetta came to his rescue.
“Master Pamphilio,” she said, “tell Donna Micaela
of Guglielmo the Wicked.” And Master Pamphilio
began.
“Donna Micaela,” he said, “do you know that
once there was a king in Sicily whose name was
Guglielmo the Wicked ? He was so covetous that he
took all his subjects’ money. He commanded that
every one possessing gold coins should give them to
him. And he was so severe and so cruel that they
all had to obey him.
“Well, Donna Micaela, Guglielmo the Wicked
wished to know if any one had gold hidden in his
house. Therefore he sent one of his servants along
the Corso in Palermo with a beautiful horse. And
the man offered the horse for sale, and cried loudly:
4 Will be sold for a piece of gold; will be sold for
a piece of gold !’ But there was no one who could
buy the horse.
“ Yet it was a very beautiful horse, and a young
nobleman, the Duke of Montefiascone, was much
taken by him. ’ There is no joy for me if I cannot
buy the horse/ said he to his steward. ’ Sign or
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