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320 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
“ Micaela!” — it came almost like a wail. Donna
Micaela thought that her father already looked like
a conquered man, but she continued as if she had
noticed nothing.
“ Some one came” she said with strong emphasis,
“and he had had new vines sent out. He began to
plant them in their vineyards. They laughed at
him; they said that he was mad. But look, his
vines grew and lived; they did not die. And he
has saved Gela.”
“ I do not think that your story is entertaining,
Micaela,” said Cavaliere Palmeri with an attempt to
interrupt her.
“It is quite as entertaining as your
investigations,” she said, calmly. “But I will tell you
something. One day I went into your room to get
a book on antiquities. Then I found that all your
bookshelves were full of pamphlets about the
phylloxera, about the cultivation of grapes, about
wine-making.”
The cavaliere twisted on his chair like a worm.
“Be silent; be silent!” he said feebly. He was
more embarrassed than when he was accused of
theft.
Now all the suppressed fun shone once more in
her eyes.
“I sometimes looked at the letters you sent off,”
she continued. “ I wished to see with what learned
men you corresponded. It surprised me that the
letters were always addressed to presidents and
secretaries of Agricultural Societies.”
Cavaliere Palmeri was unable to utter a word.
Donna Micaela enjoyed his helplessness more than
can be described.
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