The Wandering Jew — Volume 11 by Eugène Sue
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artisan, who like me, daughter of a king, wanders on for
centuries--likewise hope to reach the end of that immense journey! "Where is he, Lord? where is he? Hast thou deprived me of the power once bestowed, to see and hear him through the vastness of intervening space? Oh, in this mighty moment, restore me that divine gift--for the more I feel these human infirmities, which I hail and bless as the end of my eternity of ills, the more my sight loses the power to traverse immensity, and my ear to catch the sound of that wanderer's accent, from the other extremity of the globe?" Night had fallen, dark and stormy. The wind rose in the midst of the great pine-trees. Behind their black summits, through masses of dark cloud, slowly sailed the silver disk of the moon. The invocation of the Wandering Jewess had perhaps been heard. Suddenly, her eyes closed--with hands clasped together, she remained kneeling in the heart of the ruins--motionless as a statue upon a tomb. And then she had a wondrous dream! CHAPTER LI. THE CALVARY. This was the vision of Herodias: On the summit of a high, steep, rocky mountain, there stands a cross. The sun is sinking, even as when the Jewess herself, worn out with fatigue, entered the ruins of St. John's Abbey. The great figure on the cross--which looks down from this Calvary, |
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