United States or Gibraltar ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Rudolph's own brother had died in peace as canon of Basel and Strasbourg; his sister was happy in her convent as a modest Dominican; but the young knight over whose welfare he had promised his mother to watch, and whom he loved, was not fitted for the monastic life.
My heart is almost broken when I think of last evening, when I left him more tranquil, more happy, than he had been for a long time. "Believe me, madame, in my profound and sincere devotion. Following this advice, Madame d'Harville, three hours after the receipt of this letter, was on the road to Normandy. A post-chaise, which left Rudolph's, followed the same route.
"Darting into the house, guided by some subtle instinct, he stood the next moment in the upper room where she knelt by her sister's couch, the two mingling their tears and thanksgivings together. "All was darkness, but at sound of the well-known step Lucia sprang up with a cry of joy. 'Saved! "Rudolph's emotions, as he held her to his heart, were too big for utterance.
Some asserted that secret obligations compelled him to yield to the rich Eysvogel; for though the Ortlieb mercantile house was reputed wealthy, the business prudence of its head resulted in smaller profits, and people had not forgotten that it had suffered heavy losses during the terrible period of despotism which had preceded the Emperor Rudolph's accession to the throne.
At that time it was a dim, unknown land, a kind of novelists' Coast of Bohemia, an appropriate setting for distressed princesses. I'll hazard a guess that there was not a peak in all that district on which there was not some Black Rudolph's castle, not a road that did not clack romantically with horses' hoofs on bold adventure.
Romantic, but ill-tempered, whereas the local version here is that the gallant married the lady perhaps she became insistent; anyway, a useful if commonplace ending. I gave you an instance of Rudolph's statecraft in that little matter of the "Passauer," and am not inclined to give you any more.
Out of a clear sky Herman said: "She has had a raise." Anna was "she" to him. "Since when?" Rudolph asked with interest. "I know nothing. She has not given it to me. She has been buying herself a watch." "So!" Rudolph's tone was wary. "She will buy herself no more watches," said Herman, with an air of finality. Rudolph hesitated.
I let her come to the auctions and told her not to bid. But when I'd start my patter on some useless piece of 5-and l0-cent store bric-a-brac and give it an identity and hint at Count Rudolph's collection and so on, she was off like a two-year-old down a morning track. "I didn't know how to fix it or how to head her out of it. For a month I didn't have the heart to disillusion her. I let her buy.
As a husband and father, he had found deep happiness in the love of the Countess Elizabeth, the future Emperor Rudolph's sister, yet he had remained a warm friend of the abbess; and when he treated Eva with such marked distinction at the dance, she owed it not only to her own charms but also to the circumstance that, like the girl whom he had loved in his youth, she bore the name of "Eva Ortlieb," and the expression of her eyes vividly recalled the happiest time in his life.
Rudolph's efforts to free himself were in vain. For hours he lay there, gasping for breath. Suddenly, when he was about to suffocate, the door was broken open, and he found himself fainting in the arms of the Slasher. When Rudolph recovered consciousness he was in his house, attended by his doctor, a negro and the Slasher. The Schoolmaster and the Screech-Owl had come to enter the house.
Word Of The Day