elbe-bridge

Updated: August 22, 2026

Veronica took out both the pieces of the mirror, and a lock of hair from her work-box, and handing them to Hofrat Heerbrand, she proceeded: "Here, take the fragments of the mirror, dear Hofrat; throw them down, tonight, at twelve o'clock, over the Elbe-bridge, from the place where the Cross stands; the stream is not frozen there; the lock, however, do you wear on your faithful breast.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English

Here the Cross Church Scholars and the Law Clerks set up a loud laugh, and cried: "The student is mad; he fancies himself to be sitting in a glass bottle, and is standing on the Elbe-bridge and looking right down into the water. Let us go along!"

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English