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fra Felice’s testament
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high altar on Sundays, and thirty during feast-days.
We could see Father Rossi when he said mass here.
What shall we do in another church, Donna Elisa?
We cannot see at all there. They have extinguished
the light of our eyes anew."
Donna Elisa’s heart became as warm as if molten
lava had flowed across it. Surely this was a great
wrong inflicted upon these blind.
Donna Elisa went to Don Matteo.
" Reverence," she said, " have you spoken to the
syndic ? "
" Ah, Donna Elisa," said Don Matteo, " it is
better that you speak with him than I."
" Reverence, the syndic is a stranger. He may,
perhaps, not have heard about the blind."
" Signor Voltaro has been to him, Father Rossi has
been to him, and even I, even I. All the answer he
gave was, that he could not alter what had been
decided by the city-junta. You know very well,
Donna Elisa, that the city-junta can retract nothing.
If it has decided that your cat shall say mass at the
cathedral, it cannot change it."
Suddenly there arose a great commotion in the
church. A tall, blind man entered. " Father Elia,"
was the whisper, " Father Elia."
Father Elia was alderman for the blind singers’
guild, which used to assemble here. He had long
white hair and beard, and was as beautiful as one of
the holy patriarchs.
Like all the rest he, too, went forward to Father
Succi. He sat down beside him, leaning his head
against the coflin.
Donna Elisa went up to Father Elia and spoke to
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