THELMA

BY MARIE CORELLI







THELMA.




BOOK I.


THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN.

CHAPTER I.


"Dream by dream shot through her eyes, and each
Outshone the last that lighted."--Swinburne.


Midnight,--without darkness, without stars! Midnight--and the
unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious
king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky