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EBOOK THELMA ***


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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 above him,--his
canopy,--gleamed with a cold yet lustrous blue, while across it slowly
flitted a few wandering clouds of palest amber, deepening, as they
sailed along, to a tawny orange. A broad stream of light falling, as it
were, from the centre of the magnificent orb, shot lengthwise across the
Altenfjord, turning its waters to a mass of quivering and shifting color
that alternated from bronze to copper,--from copper to silver and azure.


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