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Updated: June 20, 2025
He remembered with renewed awe that this castle stood only a few leagues above the Lurlei rocks where a nymph of unearthly beauty lured men to their destruction, and the knight crossed himself as a protection against all such.
"Oh, I'm going to visit the mermaid," responded Paul and a few minutes afterward he was in her embrace; or rather in the embrace of the noted Lurlei. Instead of swallowing him up, as had been anticipated, it only whirled him around a few times; he soon succeeded in getting away with a few strokes of his paddle and rapidly overhauled the terror-stricken occupants of the press boat.
Then the touch of a fish, cold, slippery, serpent-like, causes an involuntary shrinking. But the submarine diver has a new revelation of piscine character and beauty, and perhaps can better understand the enticings of a siren or fantastic Lurlei than the classical scholar.
Their cries of: "This way Captain, the Lurlei," were unheeded by Paul who kept directly for the jutting rock which causes the eddy known as the whirlpool. "Where are you going?" thundered out one of the members of the press, "Come to this side of the river!"
It seems to have been the Queen's habit, in these yachting excursions, to take upon herself a part, at least, of the Princess Royal's education. "Beautiful Dartmouth" recalled it might be all the more, because of the rain that fell there the Rhine with its ruined castles and its Lurlei. Plymouth Harbour and the shore where the pines grew down to the sea, led again to Mount Edgcumbe, always lovely.
"Lurlei Lurlei!" she sang, flourishing the blossoms about his head. Tom dashed off the flowers in a blind despair. The scene was growing too much for him to bear. "Yes," he said, drearily, "I'll go I'll go! I shan't trouble you again. I hope the day may never come when you will be sorry, Elsie." He was so pale and trembled so violently, that she was absolutely terrified.
When they left Geisenheim, the press boat was literary loaded down with hampers of delicious wine. That same evening they reached Bingen. Here the Captain was warned to beware of Bingen Loch and the Lurlei. He took but little stock in the stories about their dangers and secretly determined to dash right into the legendary whirlpool.
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