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Title: Sister Carmen

Author: M. Corvus

Release Date: December 30, 2004 [eBook #14523]

Language: English

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SISTER CARMEN

by

M. CORVUS

Translated from the German by KATE DYKERS

New York
The Minerva Publishing Company
48 University Place

1891

CHAPTER I.

The first rays of early dawn threw their shadowy light over hill and
dale, and all nature seemed animated with new life as the fresh spring
breeze kissed the young blades of grain in the fields. Ever brighter
and more glowing grew the eastern horizon, ever more golden the light,
floating clouds, until at last the dazzling rays of the king of day
flashed forth upon the expectant world.

With its clear carol of joy, a lark soared upward from her dewy nest,
singing her morning anthem to the great Creator; and, as if in glad
sympathy with the happy bird, the many and varied voices of nature
united in celebrating the resurrection, not only of the sun, but of all
things, for it was Easter Sunday morning.

Forth from the dwellings of a small Moravian village issued a band of
simply attired folk, who wended their way through the green fields and
up the hillside to a spacious wood, where was located a quiet
graveyard, in which gigantic linden-trees stretched out their leafless
branches, forming a graceful network overhead.

In the centre of this lovely spot stood an immense stone cross, the
sign of that Lord whose resurrection was to-day celebrated with the
sound of trumpets and the voices of the people.

A feeling of holy joy seemed to reign in every heart, as the crowd
stood grouped around the base of the cross, gazing with reverence at it
as it now shone bathed in the glorious radiance of the risen sun.
Presently the music ceased and the soft echoes died away among the
distant hills, while a clear, manly voice in the midst of the
congregation proclaimed: "The Lord is risen!" "He is risen indeed!"
replied each one joyously; after which the first spe