Angels and Women (1924)

ANGELS AND WOMENThe avalanche hung over us for a breathand then descended. Above the howling ofthe storm, the roaring waters and bellowingearthquake, an awful crash was heard. Thevessel staggered, heaved and spun around inthe boiling maelstrom like a dry leaf in agale. l ! 0 that horrible, sickening swirDizzy and stunned, we fell prostrate, thecolor forsook our faces, the warm current oflife was frozen, our hearts almost ceased tobeat; we were within the jaws of death, wesank into an abyss l 0 our God, shield usand protect us from this fearful houri wasthe cry of each heart.Then the Tebah made a tremendous lurch,plunged completely under water, trembledin every joint, righted again and crashingthrough a thousand wrecks, came upunharmed."God be praised[" exclaimed our fatherNoah, "we are afloat l"And with pale, earnest lips we all echoed,"God be praised ["