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THE OUTCAST ’ 17
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never noticed that she was looking after him. He
walked and mumbled and cursed, and did not know
but that he was as much alone as if he sat in his
cell.
Donna Micaela wondered why Fra Felice was so
angry with Miss Tottenham. Had she been out to
his monastery and taken down frescos from the
walls, or what had she done?
Fra Felice had lived for sixty years in the big
Franciscan monastery outside the Porta Etnea, wall
to wall with the old church San Pasquale.
Fra Felice had been monk there for thirty years,
when the monastery was given up and sold to a
layman. The other monks moved away, but Fra
Felice remained because he could not understand
what selling the house of San Francisco could
mean.
If laymen were to come there, it seemed to Fra
Felice almost more essential that at least one monk
should remain. Who else would attend to the
bell-ringing, or prepare medicines for the peasant women,
or give bread to the poor of the monastery? And
Fra Felice chose a cell in a retired corner of the
monastery, and continued to go in and out as he had
always done.
The merchant who owned the monastery never
visited it. He did not care about the old building;
he only wanted the vineyards belonging to it. So
Fra Felice still reigned in the old monastery, and
fastened up the fallen cornices and white-washed
the walls. As many poor people as had received
food at the monastery in former days, still received
it. For his gift of prophecy Fra Felice got such
large alms as he wandered through the towns of
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