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Updated: May 13, 2025
He followed it, and before answering Barbara's kind greeting, went to the hearth and flung into the fire the sheets, which contained the pure, sweet fragrance of a beautiful flower of youth. "Oho! Junker!" cried the widow. "A quick fire doesn't suit every kind of food. What is burning there?" "Foolish paper!" he answered. "Have no fear. At the utmost it might weep and put out the flames.
The intoxication passed away, and as she saw him standing before her with out-stretched arms and sparkling eyes, she shrank back, a feeling of intense loathing of him and her own weakness seized upon her and, instead of throwing the book aside and rushing to meet him, she tore it in halves, saying proudly: "Here are your verses, Junker von Dornburg; take them with you."
And what our Militarists said our Junkers echoed; and our Junker diplomatists played for.
At length he hurt my hand, which I could not get away from him; and whereas he was beginning to look wildly and to seem crazed, I besought him to leave me free henceforth and try his fortune elsewhere. But still he would never have set me free so hastily if an evil star had not brought the Swabian Junker to the spot.
Then Ursula came forth into the hall again, and how she swept past us on Junker Henning's arm. A young knight of the Palatinate now led me out to a dance I had erewhile promised him. We stopped for lack of breath. The festival was over; yet did Ursula and the Junker walk together.
Kloster says he is passionately devoted to music, and so good at it that he would easily have been a first-rate musician if he hadn't happened to have been born a Junker, and therefore has to be an officer. It's a tragedy, apparently, for Kloster says he hates soldiering, and is ill if he is kept away long from music. He went away soon after that.
"It is well for me that all are not of the same opinion as your Serene Highness," said the young Jagd Junker, somewhat nettled; for he prided himself on his repartees.
As I write, the Junker aristocracy is at bay, and soon to have its throat cut; but there comes a Holy Father to its rescue, with the cross of Jesus uplifted, and a series of pleas for mercy, written in Vienna, edited in Berlin, and sent out from Rome.
Kindly! And now run." Adrian rushed down the stairs, and a few minutes after the Junker was standing in Peter's study, face to face with Maria. The shutters were closed, and the sconce on the table had two lighted candles. "Thanks, a thousand thanks for coming," said Georg. "You pronounced my sentence yesterday, and to-day " "I know what brings you to me," she answered gently.
And it was from her mouth, and from none other, that he had learned that the elder Junker Schopper had met a violent death; and, when he had asked where and how, she had answered him that it was in one of those love-makings which were ever the aim and business of his life.
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