The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, Τόμος 1;Τόμος 273Macmillan, 1866 |
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Adlerstein Wildschloss babes blessing boys brother burgher burgomaster carved castle catskin chamois child Christina cried dame Danube daughter Debateable Ford Dome Kirk door dread Eagle's Ebbo Ebbo's Ermentrude Ermentrude's exclaimed eyes face Father Norbert fear felt Frau Freiherr von Adlerstein Freiherrinn friar Friedel Friedmund gazed girl gracious lady grandmother hand Hatto Hausfrau Johanna head hear heard heart Heinz honour Hugh Sorel Jobst knew knight Kunigunde Lanzknecht laughed look maiden marriage Mary of Burgundy Master Gottfried Mätz Minnesinger mother mountain mule Needfire never noble numbers Offingen old Ursel once oubliette pass poor little priest replied returned rock round scarcely Schlangenwald Schloss Adlerstein Schneiderlein Sir Eberhard Sir Kasimir snow stairs steps Stina stood Swabian Swabian League tell thee thou hast thought trembling turret voice watched weeping wild window woman young baron young lord
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Σελίδα 206 - ... Stony insensibility ensued ; nor did she speak again, though life lasted many hours longer. The priests did their office ; for, impenitent as the life and frantic as the words had been, the opinions of the time deemed that their rites might yet give the departing soul a chance, though the body was unconscious. When all was over, snow was again falling, shifting and drifting so that it was impossible to leave the castle, and the two monks were kept there for a full fortnight, during which Christmas...
Σελίδα 38 - Poor child ! she had no raptures for romantic scenery ; she knew that jagged peaks made very pretty backgrounds in illuminations, but she had much rather have been in the smooth meadows of the environs of Ulm. The Danube looked much more agreeable to her, silver-winding between its green banks, than did the same waters leaping down with noisy voices in their stony, worn beds to feed the river that she only knew in his grave breadth and majesty. Yet, alarmed as she was, there was something in the...
Σελίδα 124 - Ah, no, no," said the old woman ; "but see here," and she lifted up Christina's powerless, bloodless hand, and showed her the ring on the finger. Her bosom had been evidently searched when her dress was loosened in her swoon, and her ring found and put in its place. " There, you can hold up your head with the best of them ; he took care of that — my dear young Freiherr, the boy that I nursed," and the old woman's burst of tears brought back the truth to Christina's reviving senses.
Σελίδα 42 - He stared hard at the maiden, but vouchsafed her no token of greeting — only distressed ber considerably by distracting her father's attention from her mule by his questions about the journey, all in the same rude, coarse tone and phraseology. Some amount of illusion was dispelled. Christina was quite prepared to find the mountain lords dangerous ruffians, but she had expected the graces of courtesy and high birth ; but, though there was certainly an air of command and freedom of bearing about...
Σελίδα 170 - IT fell about the Lammas tide, When moor men win their hay," that all the serfs of Adlerstein were collected to collect their lady's hay to be stored for the winter's fodder of the goats, and of poor Sir Eberhard's old white mare, the only steed as yet ridden by the young Barons. The boys were fourteen years old.
Σελίδα 1 - She was too small, too slight, too retiring for such a position. If there was something lily-like in her drooping grace, it was not the queen-lily of the garden that she resembled, but the retiring lily of the valley — so purely, transparently white was her skin, scarcely tinted by a roseate blush on the cheek, so tender and modest the whole effect of her slender figure, and the soft, downcast, pensive brown eyes, utterly dissimilar in hue from those of all her friends and kindred, except perhaps...
Σελίδα 55 - Noster, and Ave, as correctly as might be expected from a long course of traditionary repetitions of an incomprehensible language. And she knew besides a few German rhymes and jingles, half Christian, half heathen, with a legend or two which, if the names were Christian, ran grossly wild from all Christian meaning or morality. As to the amenities, nay, almost the proprieties, of life, they were less known in that baronial castle than in any artisan's house at Ulm.