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So he offered no opposition, and sent by the next courier a letter to Lady Wendula Schorlin, his young cousin's mother, in which, with Heinz's knowledge-nay, at his request he related what her son had experienced, and entreated her not to withhold him from the vocation of which God deemed him worthy.
Our Lord and Saviour commanded His disciples to leave father and mother and to follow Him." "Who will prevent his walking in the paths of Jesus Christ?" replied the Lady Wendula?
Wendula Schorlin, Heinz's mother, with her daughter Maria, had fallen into the hands of the city soldiers and been carried to the convent in Constance, where she and her youngest child now remained with the two older daughters. Heinz, deeply agitated by the news, exclaimed: "Uncle Ramsweg, our kind second father, also in the grave without my being able to press his brave, loyal hand in farewell!
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger even one as old and friendly as I seeks to draw it from a modest maiden." Here he paused; he had just recognised Lady Wendula Schorlin.
He was barely eighteen when the Lady Wendula sent him to his imperial master.
Lady Wendula bade her farewell with an affectionate "until we meet again," and promised positively to go to the reception at the castle. Eva uttered a sigh of relief. It seemed like an omen of success that this lady, who had so quickly inspired her with such perfect confidence, was to witness her difficult undertaking.
The two older girls had taken the veil, while the youngest, a merry little maiden, lived with her mother. But the Emperor Rudolph had by no means forgotten the Lady Wendula and her dead husband, and with the utmost kindness requested her to send him her only son as soon as he was able to wield a sword and lance.
Here surprise and joy forced from Eva's lips the question, "His mother?" and there was such amazement in the tone that, as the Lady Wendula, bowing low, approached the Emperor, after exchanging the first greetings which pass between old friends who have been long separated, he asked how it happened that though Eva seemed to have already met the matron, she heard with such surprise that she was the mother of his brave favourite.
Our Lord and Saviour commanded His disciples to leave father and mother and to follow Him." "Who will prevent his walking in the paths of Jesus Christ?" replied the Lady Wendula?
Our Lord and Saviour commanded His disciples to leave father and mother and to follow Him." "Who will prevent his walking in the paths of Jesus Christ?" replied the Lady Wendula?
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