Christine, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr [chromebook ebook reader txt] 📗

chair before the open door. The sea and the boats were spread out before her and the village lay at her feet. She could see the men fishing and the women going about the streets.

"The tide is well in," she said to her maid, "it will be high tide at three minutes before noon. Call me in about half an hour."

So she was left alone and I do not doubt it was then she heard that unfathomable call, that voice from some distant world far off yet near, and that her soul instantly answered it. She did not leave this world worn out with pain and sickness. She went without hesitation, without fear, without seeking any human help.

And I tell myself that she doubtless went out with the full tide and that some convoy of the Sea Angels was with her, for His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known. She died no death to mourn, for "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord!"

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