Sparrow (and other stories) by Giovanni Verga

Author:Giovanni Verga
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909232822
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 2013-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

5 July

I want to see him! I want to see him! Just once! Just for one moment! O God, would it be such a great sin to see him? Only to see him … from afar … through the grille! He won’t see me. He won’t know that behind the grille there’s a woman here dying, damned to everlasting punishment for his sake …

Why did they take him away from me? Why did they steal my Nino from me? My heart, my love, my share of paradise … Murderers, who killed my body, and are still torturing my soul!

Oh, how I love him! How I love him! I’m a nun … I know! Who cares! I love him! He’s my sister’s husband, and I love him! It’s a sin, a monstrous crime … I love him, I love him!

I want to see him! I want to see him! If only for the last time! I’ll wait for him at the window of the bell-tower overlooking the street. I’ll wait there every day … he’s bound to pass by … once, just once … God will send him this way …

God – O Marianna, how that word terrifies me! I’m raving, you can tell … I’m beside myself … I don’t know what’s wrong with me … it must be fever … or nerves … I must be mad …

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