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the water’s side, watching the boats
go seaward in the sun.

Suddenly through the darkness
a great white radiance streamed
through the vastness of the aisles;
the moon, that was at her height, had
broken through the clouds ; the snow
had ceased to fall; the light reflected
from the snow without was clear
as the lights of dawn. It fell
through the arches full upon the two
pictures above, from which the boy
on his entrance had flung back the
veil: the Elevation and the Descent
from the Cross were for one instant
visible.

Nello rose to his feet and stretched °
his arms to them; the tears of a
passionate ecstasy glistened on the