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 ''the right and soon disappear among the lower clouds. Keen storm-gusts hurtle and whistle through the air.''

[The ''appears upon the stone-scree to the left. She stops and looks around silently and searchingly.''

[ can he heard singing triumphantly far in the depths below.

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I am free! I am free! I am free! No more life in the prison for me! I am free as a bird! I am free!

[Suddenly a sound like thunder is heard from high up on the snow-field, which glides and whirls downwards with rushing speed. and  can be dimly discerned as they are whirled along with the masses of snow and buried in them.

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[Gives a shriek, stretches out her arms towards them and cries.] Irene! [Stands silent a moment, then makes the sign of the cross before her in the air, and says.

Pax vobiscum!

[ ''triumphant song sounds from still farther down below.''