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ONLY OF THIS WORLD 359
but the culprit could not be discovered. There
were no witnesses; no one could be prevailed upon
to betray a comrade.
Then Margherita Cornado appeared and denounced
Orestes, who was the son of her godmother, Santuzza,
and who had not moved to Racalmuto at all.
She did it although she had heard afterwards
that her betrothed had been guilty of everything of
which Santuzza had accused him. She did it
although she herself had sealed his doom by kissing
the knife.
She had hardly accused Orestes before she
repented of it; she was filled with the anguish of
remorse.
In another land what she had done would not
have been considered a crime, but it is so regarded
in Sicily. A Sicilian would rather die than be an
informer.
Margherita Cornado enjoyed no rest either by
night or by day. She had a continual aching
feeling of anguish in her heart, a great unhappiness
dwelt in her.
She was not severely judged, because every one
knew that she had loved the murdered man and
thought that Santuzza had been too cruel towards
her. No one spoke of her disdainfully, and no one
refused to salute her.
But it made no difference to her that others were
kind to her. Remorse filled her soul and tortured
her like an aching wound. Orestes had been
sentenced to the galleys for life. Santuzza had died a
few weeks after her son’s sentence had been passed,
and Margherita could not ask forgiveness of either of
them.
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