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PALAZZO GERACI — PALAZZO CORVAJA 279
She was a woman who had been very beautiful,
although all freshness now was gone from her, for
she was no longer young. But hers was still an
impressive and large-souled face. “ Here dwells a
soul which can love and suffer,” said the face.
Donna Micaela felt drawn to that poor woman as to
a sister.
“No, it is not the time to go yet,” she said to
Donna Elisa.
The carabiniere asked and asked if they would
not let him come out.
No, no, no! Not until he let the child go !
It was the child of Piero and his wife, Marcia.
But they were not the child’s real parents. The
trouble arose from that.
The carabiniere tried to win the people over to
his side. He tried to convince, not Piero nor
Marcia, but the others. “Ninetta is the child’s
mother,” he said; “you all know that. She has not
been able to have the child with her while she was
unmarried; but now she is married, and wishes to
have her child back. And now Marcia refuses to
give her the boy. It is hard on Ninetta, who has
not been able to have her child with her for eight
years. Marcia will not give him up. She drives
Ninetta away when she comes and begs for her
child. Finally Ninetta had to complain to the
syndic. And the syndic has told us to get her
the child. It is Ninetta’s own child,” he said
appealingly.
But it had no great effect on the men of Corvaja.
“Ninetta is a Geraci,” burst out Piero, and the
circle stood fast round the carabiniere.
“When we came here to fetch the child,” said
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