Download or read book The White Sister written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though she stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherit the property herself, throwing her sister Angela into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry dashing officer Captain Giovani Severini, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Africa. Unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and has returned to Italy, Angela dedicates her life to his memory, becoming a nun. The story describes Angela's renunciation of her love for the artillery officer, her life as the beautiful "white sister" in a convent, and the struggle between her love for the man and the allegiance to the church.