Sabina :
a story of the Amish /
by Helen Reimensnyder Martin.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : The Century Co., 1905.
- Summary
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The setting is New Holland, Pennsylvania and the plot melodramatic. The Amish Wilt family take in as a border a young artist who is interested in local color sketches. The Amish are pictured through the eyes of this cultured outsider border who finds them backward, primitive and ignorant. The beautiful eighteen-year-old daughter, Sabina, has clairvoyant powers and can foresee disaster and death in the family. Sabina, who has a conceited and braggart suiter, Ulmer Popple, falls in love with the artist who has strong feelings for her. Elephena, a Lutheran, and against the wishes of her mother, marries Sabina's brother Aaron. Sabina, however, has a premonition of disaster which is fulfilled when soon after the wedding Elephena dies. Aaron is about to be arrested for poisoning Elephena but through the ingenuity of the artist who it turns out is a Doctor of Science gives an explains that saves Aaron. After two years the artist returns to finds Sabina married to Ulmer and a sort of amnesia covering his entire period with the Wilt family. Sabina's psychic powers are gone and she has two babies consuming her undivided attention. (Bender)
- Physical Description
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233 p. ;
20 cm.
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