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Updated: May 25, 2025
"I am going to finish this turtledove first, though," said Tabea gayly. It was finally agreed that if Tabea would speak to the director on behalf of the sisterhood, the sisters would resolutely stand by their threat, and that they would absent themselves from Brother Friedsam's music drills long enough to have him understand that they were not to be treated like children.
To the surprise of all, Tabea left her work at once, covered up her head with the hood attached to her gown, and sought the lodge of Brother Friedsam, which stood between Bethany and Sharon. When Tabea was admitted to the cell, and stood before the revered Friedsam, she felt an unexpected palpitation. Nor was Beissels any more composed.
The sisters who came to call Tabea to supper that evening also failed to elicit any response. Late in the night, when she had become calm, Tabea heard the crowing of a cock, and her heart was deeply touched at the thought that Friedsam, the revered Friedsam, now more than ever the beloved of her soul, was at that moment going to prayer for the disciple who had broken her vow.
Then, finding that the director remained silent, she said, with emotion: "Brother Friedsam, I have a great reverence for you, but I wish you knew something of the infirmities of a heart that wants to love and to be loved by somebody, and then maybe you would not think so very hardly of Tabea after she has gone."
And the next Saturday for the seventh day was the Ephrata Sabbath Tabea took a new, solemn, and irrevocable vow; and from that time until the day of her death she was called Sister Anastasia the name signifying that she had been re-established. What source of consolation Anastasia had the rest never divined.
And so each one took the startling intelligence according to her character, and soon all work was suspended, and every inmate of Sharon was gathered in unwonted excitement in the halls and the common room. When Tabea passed out of the low-barred door of Sharon she met the radiant face of Scheible, who had tied his two saddle horses a little way off. "Come quickly, Tabea," he said with impatience.
The director felt faint; he sat down and looked dejectedly into the corner of the room farthest away from where Tabea stood. He roused himself in a few moments, and turned about again, to find Tabea kneeling on the flagstones before him. "I have denied the Lord!" she moaned, for her judgment had now come completely round to Friedsam's standpoint. His condemnation seemed bitterer than death.
At length it was agreed that Tabea should tell Brother Friedsam that the sisters did not intend to go to singing school again. Then Tabea lifted up her dark head and regarded the circle of women in white garments about her. "You are all brave now, but when Brother Friedsam shakes his finger at you, you will every one of you submit as though you were a set of redemptioners bought with his money.
Even in illuminating the notebook with pretty billing turtledoves, and emblematic flowers such as must have grown in paradise, since nothing of the sort was ever known in any earthly garden even in painting these, some of the nuns came near to spoiling their colors and blurring their pages with tears. Only Margaretha Thome, who was known in the convent as Sister Tabea, shed no tears.
"I gave the message," said Sister Tabea, "and Brother Friedsam did not say whether the four parts sung by the men would be sufficient or not. But I know very well what he will do; he will coax you all back within a week." "And you will leave the convent and break your vows; mark my words," said Sister Jael with sharpness. "It will be after I get this page finished, I tell you," said Tabea.
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