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One day this creature called on the clockmaker, announced that he had been made a magistrate, and demanded the hand of Guta, hinting that it would go ill with the master should he refuse. The clockmaker was taken completely by surprise, but he offered his congratulations and called the girl to speak for herself as to her hand.
About the middle of the thirteenth century, there was a stately castle near Kaub which was inhabited by Count Philip of Falkenstein. There he lived very happily with his beautiful sister Guta, who was as good as she was fair. Numerous knights had sought to win her love, but none had achieved this conquest, the castle maiden having no desire to exchange her brother's hospitable home for any other.
So wrapped up was he in his art that he seemed to live in a world of his own, quite indifferent to the customs and practices of ordinary life; he forgot his meals, forgot his sleep, cared nothing for his clothes, and would have been in evil case indeed had not his daughter Guta tended him with filial affection.
At last the day came when the clockmaker joyfully announced that his masterpiece was finished, and he called upon Guta and his young partner to witness his handiwork. They beheld a wonderful clock, of exquisite workmanship, and so constructed that the striking of the hour automatically set in motion several small figures.
Yea, truly, answered the maid, a hundred emperors. I feared thou hadst forsaken me altogether, she added naively. Richard laughed. Would I be a worthy Emperor an I did not keep my troth with such as thou? he asked. The Emperor thou? cried Guta, starting back. Yea, the Emperor, and none other, said her brother reverently. And once more Guta hid her face on Richards breast.
Within a week they were married, and Guta accompanied her husband to the court as Empress of Germany. To the castle where his bride had passed her maidenhood Richard gave the name of Gutenfels Rock of Guta which name it has retained to this day. The Story of Schönburg
The Briton seemed to notice it and pressing Philip's hand said cordially, "I am Richard of Cornwall, elected Emperor of Germany, and I have come here to solicit the hand of your sister Guta, who promised herself to me five months ago in Cologne. I come late to redeem my promise, but my love is unchanged. I beg you to announce my arrival to her without betraying my name."
In his absent-minded fashion he was really very fond of Guta, fonder even than he was of his clocks, and that is saying not a little. The neighbours, busy, energetic folk who performed their daily tasks and drank wine with their friends, scoffed at the dreamy, unpractical old fellow and derided his occupation as the idle pastime of a mind not too well balanced.
It need hardly be said that such a man had but few acquaintances; yet a few he had, and among them one who is worthy of especial note a wealthy citizen who aspired to a position of civic honour in Strassburg. In appearance he was lean, old, and ugly, with hatchet-shaped face and cunning, malevolent eyes; and when he pressed his hateful attentions on the fair Guta she turned from him in disgust.
Guta had been watching the strange knight with ever increasing interest during the tournament, regretting at the same time that she could not see his face. But an opportunity soon presented itself when the knight was declared victor.
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