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Then, with a single clash, every glass was set vigorously down upon the table. "Bravo!" cried Sperver. Then turning to me "Fritz, we have already drunk to the health of the count and of Mademoiselle Odile; you will do the same." Twice had I to drain the cup before the vigilant eyes of the whole table. Then I too began to look grave. Could it have been drunken gravity?
Next to him, like the lamb next to the wolf, was the portrait of a lady of youthful years, with gentle blue eyes, hands crossed on the breast over a book of devotions, and tresses of fair long silky hair encircling her sweet countenance with a glorious golden aureola. This picture struck me by its wonderful resemblance to Odile of Nideck.
Odile leads nowhither then hire a carriage, and make leisurely way across country by the Hohwald, and the Champ de Feu to Rothau, Oberlin's country, thence to Strasburg. In our own case, the fascinations of our hosts overcame our repugnance to Barr itself, so we stayed on, every day making long drives into the fresh, quiet, beautiful country.
The dark-leaved henbane is in brilliant yellow flower, and the purple foxglove in striking contrast; but the wealth of summer flowers is over. Who would choose to live on Ararat? Yet it is something to reach a pinnacle from whence you may survey more than one kingdom. The prospect from St. Odile is one to gaze on for a day, and to make us dizzy in dreams ever after.
Make no noise, and mind, you have seen nothing and know nothing!" "Is that all, Sperver?" I asked. He nodded gravely. "And about the count?" "He is in again. He is better." We had got to the antechamber. Gideon knocked at the door gently, then he opened it, announcing "Doctor Fritz." I took a pace forward, and stood in the presence of Odile. Sperver had retired, closing the door.
Nobody else will suit us; and you can take Mademoiselle Peggy Morrison that you think is such a fine young woman." Rice laughed. "You and I are not the only men in Kaskaskia who admire Mademoiselle Saucier, my lad." "But you are the worst one," said Pierre eagerly. "Odile thinks if you let her alone we may get her." "But I can't let her alone.
But I had gone on a few steps, and came in sight, by the faint rays of the lamp, of a pale, delicate figure seated in a Gothic chair not far from the sick man. It was Odile of Nideck.
Standing before the portrait of Hedwige, whose likeness to the young countess had struck me at our first visit to the library, he addressed me in these solemn words: "Here is she who was to return to comfort and pity me! She has returned! At this moment she is downstairs with the old count. Look well, Fritz; do you recognise her? Is it not Odile?" Then turning to the picture of Hugh's second wife
Blocks of the conglomerate used in the construction of the so-called Pagan Wall meet us at every turn, and as we gaze down the steep sides of the promontory we can trace its massive outline. A scene not soon to be forgotten! The still, solitary field of Carnac, with its avenues of monoliths, is not more impressive than these Cyclopean walls, thrown as a girdle round the green slopes of St. Odile.
To explore it properly you must be a good pedestrian. Much, indeed, of the finest scenery of these regions is beyond reach of travellers who cannot walk five or six hours a day. Any one, however, may drive to St. Odile, and St. Odile is the great excursion of Alsace. Who cares a straw for the saint and her story now?
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