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ruddy dawn was breaking over the summits of the mountains which inclose the Lake of Genesareth on the eastern side, when Sadoc and his sister Michal came forth from Capernaum to walk on the beach, which was yet as silent as it had been during the night. They walked quickly and were mute till the city was hidden from them by the projection of a hill, whose base was washed by the waves. They then paused and gazed on a scene which they were wont to behold, but which now appeared in more than ordinary beauty. The deep vale in which the lake lay embosomed was yet reposing in a grey shadow, while the radiance of the morning streamed through the clefts of the opposite mountains, and crimsoned the tops of the western hills. The