Wuthering Expectations: Nothing, for here nothing was being heralded - Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal

Wuthering Expectations: Nothing, for here nothing was being heralded - Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal
Excerpt:
OK, here's a real Christmas story.

Two children are trapped on a mountainside during a blizzard on Christmas Eve. They are saved by a miracle, or by chance, or perhaps the series of coincidences that allow them to survive are themselves the miracle.

This is Adalbert Stifter's sweet, mysterious Rock Crystal (1853)...