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120 THE MIRACLES OF AJVTICHRIST
Now Don Ferrante wished to harness his old
horses before the gala carriage and have his old
shopman take the place of coachman.
When Donna Micaela told him that it could not
be, Don Ferrante began to weep. What would
people think of him if he did not show himself on
the Corso in the afternoon ? That was the last thing
a man of position denied himself. How could
anyone know that he was a nobleman, if he did not
drive up and down the street in the carriage of the
old Alagonas?
The happiest hour Don Ferrante had enjoyed
since his illness was when he drove out for the first
time. He sat erect and nodded and waved very
graciously to every one he met. And the people of
Diamante bowed, and took off their hats, so that
they swept the street. Why should they not give
Don Ferrante this pleasure?
Donna Micaela was with him, for Don Ferrante
did not dare to drive alone. She had not wished
to go, but Don Ferrante had wept, and reminded
her that he had married her when she was despised
and penniless. She ought not to be ungrateful; she
ought not to forget what he had done for her, and
ought to come with him. Why did she not wish to
drive with him in his carriage? It was the finest
old carriage in Sicily.
“Why will you not come with me?” said Don
Ferrante. “ Remember that I am the only one who
loves you. Do you not see that not even your father
loves you ? You must not be ungrateful.”
In this way he had forced Donna Micaela to take
her place in the gala carriage.
But it was not at all as she had expected. No
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