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day. She was so wedged in that she could not get rid of its life- 
less remains. She was dug out alive after eleven days, which 
she had counted from a ray of light that reached her. 
recovered, but remained sad and gloomy, could not bear to see a 
child, would neither marry nor become a nun. She preferred 
solitude, turned away with a shudder from houses, and liked to — 
sit musing under a tree, whence no buildings were seen. She 
pined away, and died at five-and-twenty. 
dug out alive on the third day, and lived. At Montemurro, in 
t last, Maria Antonia Palermo and her two little girls, 
