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THE GOD-SISTER
61
“Have you nothing else to say?” asked the
signorina.
“I wish I had,” said Giannita, “but I am only a
poor girl.”
It was wonderful to see how the features of the
young signorina’s face softened; how her color came
back and how her eyes began to shine. Now it was
plain that she had great beauty.
“Giannita,” she said, low and scarcely audibly,
“do you think that it is a miracle? Do you think
that God can let a miracle come to pass for my
sake?”
“Yes, yes,” whispered Giannita back.
“ I prayed the Christchild that he should help me,
and he sends you to me. Do you think that it was
the Christchild who sent you, Giannita?”
“ Yes, it was; it was!”
Then God has not forsaken me, Giannita?”
“ No, God has not forsaken you.”
The god-sisters sat and wept for a while. It was
quite quiet in the room. “ When you came, Giannita,
I thought that nothing was left me but to kill
myself,” she said at last. “I did not know where to
turn, and God hated me.”
“But tell me now what I can do for you,
god-sister,” said Giannita.
As an answer the other drew her to her and
kissed her.
“ But it is enough that you are sent by the little
Christchild,” she said. “It is enough that I know
that God has not forsaken me.”
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