A Tale of the Kloster a Romance of the German Mystics of the Cocalico
A Tale of the Kloster a Romance of the German Mystics of the Cocalico
Ulysses Sidney Koons
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Like a flash, though I had not thought of it before, I cried out to Brother Obed, who had the adjoining cell, "Tis Brother Martin, " though not more than a half-hour had expired since we had returned, he with us, from our midnight devotions. Suddenly the pealing notes ceased, and then came the slow, solemn tolling of the bell, a custom 84 A TALE OF THE KLOSTER followed ever after on the death of any of our number, until forty-eight were measured out, which I knew was about our brother's age. Hi...s cell was on the floor below, where I hastened as soon as the last year of his life had been tolled. A num- ber of the Brethren, with bowed heads, stood sadly in the narrow Kammer> in the still narrower doorway and corridor. I had been filled, ere I saw him, with a dread that his death agony might have had its terrors increased a thousand-fold by the awful memory of the witch ; for I knew he had never forgotten it. But when I looked down on the slight form and peaceful face resting on the hard bench and still more mortifying pillow, I saw no trace of any overpowering, death-dealing vision.
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