Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62470.83The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12690.78She was not, I was told, in the hospital portion of the house with the fever patients; for her complaint was consumption, not typhus: and by consumption I, in my ignorance, understood something mild, which time and care would be sure to alleviate.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64340.76"Then you condemn me to live wretched and to die accursed?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39360.76"Just give me your hand," he said: "it will not do to risk a fainting fit."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13300.75We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1630.71All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78720.70I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70530.70"Strange hardships, I imagine -- poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62140.70The honeymoon over, I learned my mistake; she was only mad, and shut up in a lunatic asylum.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45090.66In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71600.66Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64810.66The look was far worse to resist than the frantic strain: only an idiot, however, would have succumbed now.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40190.66"I can do that conscientiously," said Carter, who had now undone the bandages; "only I wish I could have got here sooner: he would not have bled so much -- but how is this?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7350.65I was now nearly sick from inanition, having taken so little the day before.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57000.65"The creature of an over-stimulated brain; that is certain.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46730.65Poor, suffering woman!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1640.65That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87980.62Think of the task you undertook -- one of incessant fatigue, where fatigue kills even the strong, and you are weak.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39650.62Again the poor man groaned; he looked as if he dared not move; fear, either of death or of something else, appeared almost to paralyse him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9990.61Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70600.60He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3210.60"No: but night will come again before long: and besides, -- I am unhappy, -- very unhappy, for other things."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62610.58Place her in safety and comfort: shelter her degradation with secrecy, and leave her.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46350.58It is as well I should ease my mind before I die: what we think little of in health, burdens us at such an hour as the present is to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2460.57No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92920.56"No delusion -- no madness: your mind, sir, is too strong for delusion, your health too sound for frenzy."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96260.56My crippled strength!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91750.56I had dreaded he was mad.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90870.56A dreadful calamity!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72590.56"And you need help, do you not?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71530.56"Well, it was hard: but what can a body do?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69950.56"Is she ill, or only famished?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67910.56Shall I be an outcast again this night?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67680.56I am sick of the subject.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60810.56It is cruel -- she cannot help being mad."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48610.56This was a blow: but I did not let it prostrate me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4780.56"How can you keep in good health?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42740.56-- where does she live?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42960.55"John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94760.54What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90090.54Surely, in that case, I should not be so mad as to run to him?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86660.54All this was torture to me -- refined, lingering torture.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75630.54I considered; my life was so wretched, it must be changed, or I must die.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75160.54I felt -- yes, idiot that I am -- I felt degraded.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32900.54"Did you take any cold that night you half drowned me?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42970.52The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4800.52I buried a little child of five years old only a day or two since, -- a good little child, whose soul is now in heaven.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64450.51Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12760.51I was noting these things and enjoying them as a child might, when it entered my mind as it had never done before:- "How sad to be lying now on a sick bed, and to be in danger of dying!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69570.47"All men must die," said a voice quite close at hand; "but all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom, such as yours would be if you perished here of want."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39350.71"Poor, poor child, how you must have suffered!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19650.71The child lay there in violent convulsions.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18400.71For you, indeed, with your ideas, such a thought would unhinge your whole nervous system.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3810.66He had an incurable affection of the lungs, but, like all affected by this insidious disease, had the most sanguine hopes of recovery.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7630.65"Come to your senses, you wicked child!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27980.65"Labour is one of the conditions of her life.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24290.60The body had been already removed the previous evening to the undertaker’s.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21200.56"I cannot endure birds, positively cannot bear them,—and why should you feel yourself called upon to provide us with house linen?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21120.56Now he can earn his living again, and I can die content, for I shall not leave a poor, helpless, blind boy behind me.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28240.56I should not like to see the case reversed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13270.56"It is for life and death!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17200.55During the night the child was attacked by catarrh fever, and Felicitas awoke next morn- ing with a severe headache.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21330.54"Only think, John," she continued, growing serious, "we have just heard this morning of an unfortunate family, so poor that the poor little children have scarcely rags to cover them, and they are most excellent people, too.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40380.54Should I, do you think, starve in my old age on account of the sin of others?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37150.54I could not tear myself from her without inflicting upon myself a mortal wound!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35210.54The spirit fled because the body starved!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33210.54"Wretched creature, do you ‘hink to spare me?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25680.54"It must die before me," Aunt Cordnla had said,—was it destroyed?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35380.52But when your parents died and you went to Leipzig to study, then a fearful time came!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28080.52"Let her go to the house now—I don’t eare"—she added,—"although I cannot see how all the nursing she has had to do should have done her any harm.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25410.52She did not know the weakness that finds consolation for grief in constantly speaking of it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17870.52The child " "Has catarrh fever," completed the Professor dryly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16590.52Physical pain and agitation of mind had excited her feverishly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35910.52I secured to my family your inheritance, just at the time when went bad stretched you upon your death-bed!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17210.51Nevertheless she attended to all her customary duties with her usual diligence,her wounded arm was not very painful, for the healing ointment had worked well during the night.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23710.48She could, without emotion, suffer the dying woman to struggle with and prolong the death agony in the vain hope of still performing some last act of benevolence.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40660.47"In papa’s last illness, which, you know, we all feared would be fatal, he asked me to bring him from his secretary various papers, which I was to destroy before his eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9010.46Frau Ilellwig said this morning that my soul is already lost, and they all say that He will not have my poor mamma with Him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33630.46"I will defend the dead from these attacks as long as 1 live, Madame Ilellwig.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6640.45forsaken creature, for five long years.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7370.44It is time and trouble lost.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3910.44he rejoined, "doctor and death are sure to come together.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28030.44You have over-exerted yourself with nursing little Anna.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19950.43You judged blindly upon vague hints of information, and are just as blamable as though one of your patients had died through your medical neglect.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21470.42I certainly shall never rank myself among those physicians who, With one hand, assist a poor man to be rid of a disease, While thev plunge the other into his pocket and deprive him of the means of maintaining the life they have saved."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9670.41"I cannot conceive, Master Thienemann," she rejoined sharply, "how a man in his senses could ask such a thing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27620.41Her hair has not been attended to at all, and her skin is so tanned that she looks like a Ilottentot child, and I am afraid that she has overheated herself."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20470.41ANNA’S recovery advanced rapidly, but Felicitas was not yet relieved from her duties as nurse.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23100.39At the first sight of that broad, honest face, working with some violent agitation, she knew that he brought evil tid.ngs.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14020.39The Professor turned to his work again, but the train of thought which had been first interrupted by the poor woman’s account of her son’s eyes, would not be pursued.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11880.39These people think their diseases are as aristocratic as themselves, and you must be grateful to God for permission to lay your healthy hands upon their sickly bodies!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26690.39I’ll tell you what, Caroline, I never have seen our Madame as raging as she was to-day in my whole life.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31730.38Why, she would rather a thousand times be subjected for years to Madame’s most cruel treatment, than pass one month more in the society of the man who was developing this dcmoniac power over her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14090.37‘Ahal" replied Madame, in a tone of triumph "ln the course of three days the girl has become intolerable to you.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41500.36She was herself not clear concerning that, but her uncertainty was not hard to endure.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25470.35Aunt Cordula must and should have fresh flowers laid T upon her grave—but only those which she herself had nourished.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16650.35She stopped exhausted, and showed in her face the pain which her arm was giving her. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35980.32She had called down no curse upon the world of the little town at her feet,—but many of those who believed her guilty, had been nourished and supported by her helping hand, which was never closed against a suffering fellow-creature.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27010.32The deep flush of violent ex» citemcnt could still be seen upon Madame’s cheeks,—— and the ill humour that the journey had produced in her son seemed not to have been improved by his reception at home.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13880.32A frown of displeasure gathered upon his forehead, but perhaps he remembered how often, as a physician, he had been obliged to listen calmly to all kinds of fretful unkind replies from his patients.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48450.79I Bhall die if thia this fearful disgrace lasts for months only.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12330.79You have now seen for yourself the miserable condition of the farmbuildings; patching is no longer of any avail.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33130.79And let me tell you also, to-morrow I shall send for the doctor to tell me whether you are really ailing; you have looked wretchedly for the last few weeks.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59620.76Grief is robbing my father of reason, oh, how wretched I am for him !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33290.76"Your mother had an attack of headache to-day, and has gone to bed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17220.76The jutty has only lately looked so threatening in consequence of several severe storms.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41340.76I sent them off on your account; I could not endure—— How could you bear such an attack?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6630.75Now I remembered that Use had often seemed depressed and exhausted in the morning, but she had laid the blame upon the headaches from which she frequently suffered.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25190.73He knew that a day must come when she would be exposed to terrible privation, and he tore himself away from her while he believed that there was yet time to provide against that day.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7800.71I will not leave, as long as she lives, one who has suffered so much because of me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42170.71"Are my nerves so weak that you dread my fainting?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35300.71A few scars and bruises are all there is to apprehend, I imagine."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29120.71No man shall ever prescribe to me what to do or to leave undone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39330.71She had constant fever, and could scarcely sleep at all.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17160.71The jutty alone seemed to be in a most dangerous state of decay.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23680.71"This is madness, rather than the delirium of fever; she must sleep."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1310.71"This hemorrhage never came on without cause; it must have been produced by some violent agitation."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50420.70what a slough that miserable fellow has thrust us into, while he has made his own cowardly escape!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32070.70The morbid state of her nerves makes thought and sensation unnatural in her case.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40.69The skilful hand of the physician had just relieved him of a tumour in the throat that had several times threatened his life with suffocation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7120.66But I rack my brains all night long with plans for removing the invalid, and " Her voice failed her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39740.66"Poor Hartwig died before I arrived; he suffered fearfully.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36430.66He might, we know, have told their value, but he thought, rather ungallantly, that a little uncertainty would prove a healthy excitement for the lady.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26050.66He is very anxious to know that your fright and terror have produced no evil consequences."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50680.65"I am going, I never could endure the sight of the insane."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44280.65For six months she lived here like a prisoner.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3000.65Your father was a poor wretch.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27570.65I saw you shiver as with nervous fever."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13160.65For shame, you miserable fellow !
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_330.65Poor, poor child!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25370.65The physician, who has just gone, pronounces him out of danger.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11150.65I will call the poor deviltin."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42880.65She was in a state of fearful excitement.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20760.65If you had seen me this morning, in what a wretched condition I was——" "Indeed!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47550.65Why, then, do you wish to consign me to needless suffering?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43190.65Another victim, then, of the terrible crisis!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40600.65You are ill. You are wearing yourself out for your patients.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34660.65She seemed to herself about to be thrust forth to death, to destruction.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32080.65But you are healthy in body and mind."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29450.65It is hard for you, very hard, and yet I cannot see why I should be your victim.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21310.63"The wretches meant mischief; my life was in danger, and this poor creature"—she pointed to Henriette—"has had a hemorrhage from terror and agitation."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47150.63Eckhof's wound was not in itself a dangerous one, but his constitution, already much shattered and weakened, could not sustain its effects, and he died after an illness of some weeks in spite of the skill of our most distinguished phy- sicians " "And the woman, the woman W I interrupted her. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9960.62Within the last few days she had had repeated attacks of asthma, almost to suffocation, and yet she _would_ not be ill: the world should not know that she suffered.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49870.62"Child, child, I have been robbed by scoundrels of my little all, the miserable pittance left me by my grandfather!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_160.62There must be no hemorrhage from the wound——" "I will see to that," the other interrupted him, eagerly; "I will stay as long as careful watching is needed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31840.61"Yes; it is a wish upon which my life depends; it pursues me day and night; I have been ill and wretched at the idea that it may never be gratified—I——" In the mean time Elizabeth had accelerated her pace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39340.60I knew that the head of my house was a sick, embittered old man.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27560.60But I should like to prevent any ill results from mental agitation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27330.60In spite of her headache and the pain in her bandaged ham!
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4840.60The Duchess must have been too much fatigued to-day ; there was no longer any hope of seeing her.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1200.60"The dirt on this staircase is terrible,-—positively shocking!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62210.60My father had left his bed, and was recovering rapidly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42340.60It cannot have been painted long before his death, " she continued, slowly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28620.60Think how many poor children are starving for the food that you thus fling away."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39260.60Only two days!—but they outweighed in suffering her whole previous life.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8340.60You so thoroughly healthy, body and mind, and I——" Her voice failed her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51980.60"Yes; then the fellow had some remnant of strength in him; now he has become weak as a child."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51550.60The dying man first declared that, in consequence of his mental and physical infirmity, he was the prisoner of his brother and the priest.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16740.60And really she had been utterly amazed by the bailifi"s wife, lying there year in and year out in bed, and yet, poor sufferer!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55830.60I was everywhere told that he has been privately betrothed to this charming patient of his, whose cure he effected after her case had been given over as hopeless by all other physicians.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6310.59This creature, who had never even breathed the atmosphere of the same room with the woman whose few days of life she had tried to embitter, had dared thus to disturb a death-bed!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10410.58He told me, most insolently, that he thinks I should have done better this evening to have provided my suffering husband—suffering, indeed, he is as lively as a fish in the sea, except for a touch of rheumatism—with a supper that he liked, than to have worried him with such buffoonery, which will only deprive him of his usual comfort and night’s rest, and do no living creature any earthly good."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60840.58Surely no mortal heart ever suffered as mine was suffering to-day.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27220.58What a pitiable thing is the human will when it would war with fate hastening on a catastrophe!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10750.58Certainly this invalid, Herr Markus thought, was not so utterly sunk in poverty and misery.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9980.58She had been more ill than usual; for Doctor Bruck, whose patient she was, and who could always give her relief, was away.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8860.58No one can condemn them more severely than I," Doctor Bruck rejoined, in a tone as cold as her own, "but——" "Well, ’but’?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37560.58Of course these five helpless creatures must not suffer; and I have undertaken to provide for them as long as they are thus destitute."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15030.58Do you know, Kitty, that the day before yesterday, when I had that attack, I really imagined that Bruck would see me next as a corpse?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1350.58I cannot see why I should conceal from you that the patient had sprung from his bed in an excess of fever, if such had been the case."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31100.57"Herr von Hartwig, in Thalleben, one of my oldest friends, has met with a terrible accident; the injury is fatal; they write me that he cannot live a day longer.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33030.57Yesterday I was indeed in a wretched state; I was really ill, almost insane, I verily believe, with nervous agitation; at all events, I have but an indistinct remembrance of what happened after that terrible walk,—and no wonder!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8720.56But I can- not press the unsought consolations of the church upon a soul that is struggling mortally with the frail body."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15340.56Have you not already been dragged to this desert, plunged into poverty and want, that the spoiled creature might be duly served and tended?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41460.56He cannot help her, and his remedies torment her.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9730.56the child asked, in some distress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7530.56My grandmother was not dead !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56310.56Yes, yes, his illness is severe very serious !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29660.56It looked wretchedly neglected.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24160.5641 Oh, you poor creature !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20460.56Is it dangerously ill ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9850.56Is he afraid of taking cold, too?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6790.56What are you thinking of?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30740.56And he has been ill, and must come here to recover.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27860.56It will hardly leave a scar."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27850.56It is healing fast.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27800.56What a pitiable creature I am, after all!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5810.56"Most certainly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44140.56It grew quite cold.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3410.56Death everywhere,—nothing but death!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44460.56"Is your headache worse?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38490.56You are working too hard.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23660.56"Give her morphia!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9920.56"When I think of poor Schneider,—she is the widow of a day-labourer in the village," she said, turning to the others; "she always worked hard to make both ends meet, and no one could say a word against her, but she had four children to feed, and lived from hand to mouth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_950.55Was not the spring out of bed, the excess of rage, quite enough to bring on the disaster which the physician had predicted would be the result of any sudden movement?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8460.54You can bring me no consolation, you who thrust me out into the sterile desert where the burning sun scorched up my brain I" she continued, turning towards the pas- tor. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_910.54Was the old man’s mental and physical excitement alone to blame, or—his heart seemed to stop beating at the thought—had he in defending himself struck and mortally aggravated the wound in the throat?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3840.54Who could tell that it, too, had not received its death-stroke on this day ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23480.54The official an- nouncement said he died of apoplexy.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15130.54Good-day to you, Herr Doctor ; here we are !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4150.54It is ircomprehonsible to me, my child, that you have endured it for an hour!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1310.54"He used to be a poor, starving wretch " , "And why did he go to Brazil?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9990.54That she may not be driven from this wretched shanty, I suppose?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28360.54" And you contrived to drag away that exhausted man ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27840.54One thing at least is spared me: you have not aggravated the wound," she said, and looked up. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39700.54I am taking the drops that he prescribed for my nervous attacks, and he can do nothing more for me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34880.54The family has died out, the very name of Gnadewitz is extinct.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39620.54And we know, too, how that unfortunate incumbrance, the wife, usually fares.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32210.54She was this man’s curse; his passion for her would be his ruin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30730.54I feel as I did yesterday before I lost consciousness."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15720.54"I had reference to mental as well as to physical labour.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_140.54"At present all depends upon the nursing; I must leave.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12760.54The doctor always has a supply for his little patients, who often need a bribe.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4500.53You are the scourge of my life 1" She paced the room in uncontrollable rage, then suddenly pausing with ill- boding composure, said, " In fact, I cannot see the necessity for my living with you any longer ; you are long past the age to need a mother's sheltering wing.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41560.53He had no fear of the sp)tit of the unhappy woman bo long as it was fettered in its qf ppled earthly frame ; but now it was to escape, and, accordmg to popular belief, hovei above its deserted tenement until that was laid in the ground.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40890.52eat nor sleep, this suspense will kill me I" 250 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3820.52What had the last thoughts of this rare woman been before she had lain down upon her death-bed?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29150.52And I will eat it so long as life and strength are mine I" " Agnes!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28660.52And those poor old people must once more struggle and labour for a roof over their heads?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26520.52I knew that you would suffer from yesterday’s shock, and there is that terrible shooting going on in the valley."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4400.52Seven years ago he plunged into the lake and saved me from drowning at the risk of his life.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38100.52These she always attended to herself, for fear lest the lovely azalias might be injured if approached by less gentle hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38510.52My father was ill, he suffered so fearfully from headache that for three days he could not go into his be- loved library.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55230.52She had soon quitted Zürich, where the study of "that disgusting medicine irritated the nerves almost to madness."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54670.52What was death in comparison with the tortures of this wildly-beating heart condemned to live?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5430.52"They will tell you that he died in consequence of my want of skill in surgery," he said, in a voice which emotion made almost husky.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25340.52Once already beneath that very roof it had hounded on a human soul through every stage of misery and despair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39190.51The man who had slowly uttered them looked as if he had at one decisive blow put an end to a severe mental struggle. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37190.51Our own little prince is not so delicately brought up as this last and only scion of the Brandaus; the poor, puny little creature is bedded in satin and down.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17650.51Uncle Gisbert had died of a fearful disease of the throat; for months before his death he had been unable to speak, and had communicated only in writing with those around him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1130.51I was a diminutive creature, and so I must remain, and this fact deprived me in Heinz's mind of the right enjoyed by normal humanity, of growing older every year.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2830.51She was doctor and apothecary in one, and a thousand times cleverer than the miserable fellow over in Tillroda who makes the people call him doctor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_320.51"Your rubbing that table makes a noise very irritating to the nerves; Doctor Bruck prescribes absolute repose for Papa."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_220.51I cannot save the child, but the parents, who are utterly exhausted with nursing and anxiety, are counting the moments while I am away from them; the mother will eat only when I insist upon it."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61570.51The attack of frenzy, under the influence of which he had fired the Karolinenlust, was not, as I had feared, the beginning of insanity, but the first paroxysm of a nervous disease that had been lurking in his system for some days.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35390.48have sunk into the ground, where she might no longer Lua that pitiless voice as it went on wounding incurably her family pride, her feminine dignity, and yes, her heart. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_310.48The doctors said that mother and child had died of cold,—the worthless nurse had not seen to the fastening of the ' door, had gone sound asleep, and had dreamed the whole story.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45110.47Not very long ago I took the little book to examine it, when the poor child was sleeping soundly under the effects of morphia, but I could not open it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18380.47Countess Tra- chenberg had poured forth the most bitter complaints with regard to all that she was obliged to resign on account of her poverty.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_150.47She had died a natural death of a fever, the result of a cold taken While gathering herbs upon a Windy hill-top.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7590.47"I would advise you, Amalie, when you are as nervous and weak as you are to-day, to leave Bella without a fear to Miss Mertens’ care.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33590.47"The prince desires that as long as I remain here I shall take charge of his chronic inflammation of the foot——" "As long as you remain here, Bruck?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44010.47" You see, madame, it was only in the time of her sore misery and need that the poor thing took to me," the house- keeper continued. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_570.47Popular superstition finds in this peculiarity a sign of coming misfortune,—--the sure omen of an unhappy fate.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7540.47Under the influence of her irritation the voice of the baroness, which had at first been very weak and suffering, had grown perceptibly stronger.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20750.47We poor women have our miserable nerves, which make us doubly sensitive to everything that jars upon our minds.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2720.47Well, Bär, too, came here to me before going to grandmamma; he spoke of the child, whom he saw yesterday, and thought not very ill; he feared, however, that Bruck was upon a false track.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21360.47"You should not have allowed your sister to bear this burden alone," the doctor said to her as he carefully carried the still unconscious Henriette towards the house.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16660.46u I have no fear of Uncle Gisbert's ghost, but I should like to isk it why he wished to die upon this spot."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30550.46N o; the picture produced its most bewitchin g effect upon me after I knew somewhat of the inner life of that rare woman."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28370.46" Distress lent me strength: he had to be removed from beneath the eyes of his parents.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36530.46The baroness had been forced to take upon herself the care of Bella, and it was, as she declared, death to her nerves.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14120.46"I have perfect faith in your patience as well as in your compassion; but no one can tell how long it may be before the invalid——will need no further care.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41050.46"Dear friend," she said soothingly, "in moments of great mental suffering we either are not aware of the external world, or the consciousness of it increases our pain; we cannot endure that all around us should pursue its customary course while all within has received such a shock, a shock that we cannot recover from.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46680.45"Every note falls upon my anxious mind like a blow."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35710.45The dilettante always has been and always will be the pest of the scientific man," said my father.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35190.45" A terrible list of crimes 1" laughed the chamberlain.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19100.45How strange that he should so continually forget the position that she occupied!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10490.45The unfortunate man seemed in even a more .pitiable plight to-day.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8870.45However, the doctor did not appear to notice the storms that he was calling down upon his head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55260.45For several weeks improvements had been going on in the garden of the house by the river.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54540.45Those four poor people are dependent upon my energy and assistance."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36200.45Thus it happened that Doctor Bruck was actually overwhelmed with patients.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27130.45Let it lie buried and rust: I begin a new life."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50930.45It is possible that the palsied tongue of the l poor Bayadere* recovered just before death such things have happened sufficient power to babble strange, delirious sentences.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26360.45The fair nurse was released; and if there was in her heart one spark of anxiety and care for that other mortal exposed to all the fury of the storm, she would take instant advantage of her liberty and come forth.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4800.45When Elizabeth reproached her for letting her sleep so long, she assured her that she had done so by the express desire of her mother, who thought that her daughter had overtasked her strength in the last few weeks of excitement and exertion.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51200.44In spite of your watchfulness, the Indian saw your brother Gisbert a few days before his death, and he died in the full conviction that she had been foully slandered.'
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3180.44She was frail and old, and often needed care So colourless, so monotonous, the life of an impoverished woman of rank, doomed to become in time a monosyllabic old maid.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19580.44Uncle Erich has his labour fever worse than ever ; he came very near pressing a poor carpenter into the service just now, but the man was cunning enough to escape.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46780.44The wound in her head, which had been caused by a fall upon a sharp stone, had produced a most beneficial result in the copious loss of blood which had ensued.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42600.44Your life will be a purgatory ; remember what I say.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7260.44Do you not know that her Highness may die this very day?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7100.44Gradually my nerves were composed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62510.44I shuddered, the crisis was at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42640.44I was full of a nervous dread of I knew not what.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28830.44This I would oppose with every nerve of my body.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30820.44The sick man was certainly recovering.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29780.44The Way was hard, and I had a battle to fight.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27890.44And do you mean to say that surgical treatment is no longer necessary?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2510.44Tyrant,—horrible rattletrap!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11350.44But there was no living creature to be seen outside the gate.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5470.44Woe to the wretch who asks any assistance there!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45650.44"And will you suffer this loss for my sake?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29210.44"I do not fear him any longer," she said gravely.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27940.44This infirmity has grown upon you of late."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8210.44"No more poetical woman lives."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47070.44"We have all suffered from the terrible catastrophe.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36010.44She had grown notably graver.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28620.44I cannot tell absolutely whether to mourn or to rejoice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26700.43For all I care she may wear that die-away look upon her face for the next year; but to pretend to be dumb, to run about in the forest at night like a maniac, and perhaps one of these fine days burn down my house about my ears, it is more than I can bear, and I must have a word or two to say about the matter."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14060.43The poor child passes nights of suffering entirely alone, rather than summon attendants whose sleepy, sullen faces irritate her diseased, sensitive nerves; and, besides, her pride rebels against any confession of dependence upon her inferiors.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10490.43They are poor people, madame, poor and wretched," the housekeeper interposed, in a hard, dry voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62710.43"That woman must soon go to work at something, she leads a perfectly idle life," Herr Helldorf said, with a slight frown. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37690.43" Herr von Wismar told the Princess that he had a rude temperament, a most robust constitution, and it would not be easy really to injure it."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50590.43Doctor Bruck had been obliged to leave his patient for half an hour; the prince made a point of seeing at least once a day the physician who had cured him in a few weeks of a trouble of long standing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10910.42"How good you are to cheer us poor people " She hesitated and cast a quick, timid glance at her husband, who cleared his throat loudly and began to cough. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34180.41That wretched air went through me like a knife ; to-morrow I shall be miserably ill ; and then all this annoyance and vexation is too much.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46890.41I had often read of men who were drowned, innocent men who had done no wrong, and he had murder upon his soul.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34150.41My father left the room, and I was thrown entirely upon my own resources within the dangerous atmosphere of a court.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7850.41Let us hope that its fulfilment may have no ill effects upon the spirits, most gracious lady.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17890.41A few days ago, mamma, I read that " N 0, you are not blind nor deaf, but you sleep like a top.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5780.41He thinks, like the ostrich, that if he shuts his eyes no human being can see the destitute condition he has brought himself to by his own fault.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25160.41"Yes, a beggar," she said, and her eyes moistened,—"a man who does not even own the pillow where he has lain in mortal illness!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25140.41What has the strange beggar there in bed done that he should be so carefully tended, while you refuse me information necessary for my cure ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23400.41They are absolutely dead for me, and I care not a rap Whether they enter another service or go wandering about idle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46970.41"My head burns; fright and wet feet must have brought on an attack of fever."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44710.41Like some fever-bred phantom, the horrible thought that had shocked her once before in sight of the tower again occurred to her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51460.41"Do you suppose that in an hour when he lends support and consolation to the dying, Doctor Bruck has either mind or heart for aught else," she asked, with grave reproof in her tone, "and when, besides, in the sufferer to whom he ministers he loses the dearest friend he has upon earth?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7670.41He used to sit alone with her listening to her playing for hours, until a nervous malady that had attacked her had forced her to give up her beloved music for a long time.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4370.41Many of them had done harm enough in their time, and yet their death-beds were as calm and peaceful as if they had always been just and true; but poor Jost von Gnadewitz had a sad fate.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43350.41The hard hollow cough shook her emaciated frame much more frequently than formerly, her hands were burning hot, and her breath came with great difficulty.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38860.41And if I fail to do it, his aunt’s complaints stamp me in Bruck’s eyes as a kind of monster, an unwomanly, heartless creature, who does not love children.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28850.40The Crown-Prince of R——, who is studying in L——g, had a fall from his horse, and his head was so seriously and dangerously injured that no surgeon could be found willing to undertake the only operation that could save his life: even the famous Professor H—— refused to operate.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37220.39"And why, Leo, should you prefer to give your aunt the trouble of having that little monster—the petted scion of the Von Brandaus is positively the naughtiest and most good-for-nothing little wretch in the world—in her house?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_960.39Age, too, seemed to bring no immunity here ; even the pursy, asthmatic old Oberhofmeister waddled about among the crowd of children clapping his hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58740.39It was enough to bewilder the brain of a delicately - organized man who had spent his life in hard labour in the interests of science.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28120.39self that I always had regard for his invalid condition and quietly repulsed his attacks.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26450.39He was a learned, clever man, but his illness changed him sadly.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2090.39there must have been some snake at Work to taint a man’s honour which had never been sullied before.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28500.39And now, when he has suffered so terrible a shipwreck, his claims upon life are very modest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36170.39The sudden change in Doctor Bruck’s career was still a nine-days’ wonder.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32480.39Kitty wished she were away from it all; she seemed to herself like no one but Priam’s ill-omened daughter, the only one who saw where all were blind.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26900.39God grant that Henriette’s illness may not terminate fatally!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22770.39And, besides, the councillor of medicine instantly felt relieved upon the subject.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51590.38At such moments every one about him had en- deavoured to depict to him in the blackest colours the poor Indian's infidelity and moral degradation ; and he, weakened as he was in intellect, and often a prey to terrible hallucina- tions, had given credence to what had been told him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61660.38Herr Claudius's fall had caused a painful dislocation of bis left arm, and the smoke and dazzling light of the fire had brought on an inflammation of the eyes, from which at first the physicians feared the gravest consequences.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51280.38"A weakly, childish, and sickly soul informing so strong and healthy a body I" he said, his gaze resting upon the young girl's handsome form. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25210.38A longing to see his mother once more brought him hither, and now he is lying here, scarcely a hundred yards from her sick-bed——" " Is it he for whose return the bailiff is hoping as are the Jews for their Messiah?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14740.38"Pray allow me to excuse myself for an hour," said the baroness, as she collected her working materials and arose; "I should like to drive out with Bella,—it is so long since the poor child has taken the air."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2140.38Even if, as you say, he did not die immediately beneath Bruck’s knife, every one of medical knowledge will maintain, and justly, that the further struggle with death was due to his strong constitution.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8460.375. her wretched Lome, and she had allowed herself to be rescued She had not the slightest right to reproach Mainau with hav- ing deceived her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22200.37The young wife was convinced that she was suffering keenly in anticipa- tion of a threatened calamity.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10860.37You thankless man, you have eaten bread at the Dierkhof for many a year, and I think you JO THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6730.37Some time ago the bird might have shamed many a child with the number of conversational phrases it had picked up."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8060.37Many a man has done some hard fighting or worked in the trenches for days with an empty stomach, and yet has got all right when once he was at home again.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34590.37"Everything which adorned that lovely form in happier days shall surround it in death, and yield to the same decay.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1190.37It is in rather a tumble-down condition, and has needed a doctor for some time, but I suppose the authorities will do nothing for it until the old balconies come crumbling about my ears.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47380.37"Ah, Leo, how thankful I shall be when we are seated together in the carriage to-morrow, leaving behind us all this disaster and misery!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46380.37"Yes; the concussion and loss of blood have stunned her; the only danger at present to be apprehended is from her wet clothes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44150.37"I am threatened with an attack of headache, to which I am subject, and my best mode of prevention is a brimming glass of wine."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35720.37Her views of life and of its duties and pleasures had undergone a change in the quiet of the house by the river.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15210.37Margaret Giese will shatter the instrument and our nerves at the same time if we do not put an end to this torment."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6380.37"I see a great deal of the lower classes: my foster-father has many poor patients; and where good, nourishing food and other help is wanted in addition to his medicines, my dear Lukas comes to the rescue, and of course I accompany her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8490.37The pastor raised his hand as if to interrupt her, but she continued yet more violently : " And with blows from this scourge you thrust me forth from your heaven when you declared ' Your father, the Jew who gave you life, your mother, the Jewess who nourished you, are accursed to all eternity !'
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44230.37She saw a tear tremble beneath the invalid’s eyelid at the thoughtless toast as she bit her lip in indignant pain; for her, existence was a rack of torture,—for her, the delights of life were purchased by suffering with every breath she drew.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18940.37The old lady paid Susie a daily visit, now that she lived so near, carrying her strengthening soups and jellies, and spending hours in cheering the poor old housekeeper, who was much depressed at being still unable to scrub or spin or even knit.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28320.36But your perpetual dread of offending and shocking makes you so weak——" "Yes, weak enough with you, and with grandmamma," the councillor, pale with vexation, interrupted her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1040.36The miller now seemed aware of the peril he had brought upon himself; he did not stir, but his eyes turned anxiously towards the door whenever footsteps were heard without; his hopes for rescue lay in the physician.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25770.36Liana herself hastened to weaken the force of it.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4780.36VVhat if I prefer being wretched with him to being wretched without him ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29820.36Yes, Use, that is what I am, I have a bad black heart, but I did not know it, and now it is always tormenting me."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_870.36Then I was child’s nurse, and now I am scullery-maid.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5920.36"You like to excite yourself, but this is not the place for an attack of your spasms.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7870.36And I talking of new potatoes while he’s dying of hunger!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19320.36I cannot bear to have upon my soul any unatoned wrong towards any one, whoever it may be."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11060.36He seemed to me even more feeble to-day than yesterday," he added.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40650.36Woe to the poor creature when she finds him out!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16920.36"He will leave Lindhof in a short time.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4210.36Her own doctoring did no good, and Doctor Bruck is there now."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39300.36"Here, my child; do not leave this here, where the servants are coming and going continually."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32050.36"Then it was the tragical end of that forsaken dame——" "Not that only.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30710.36"If Bruck only knew how he tortures me with his injunction of silence!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16560.36Could it have such power over a man like Doctor Bruck?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11900.35At the terrible time when my poor ‘little wife broke down with her dreadful nervous disorder we foundout what Agnes was: she left her splendid position in Frankfort and came to this solitude to nurse her sick aunt."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6420.35But we have had no idea of producing a mere hot house flower, and alas for us and for her, if all that we have unweariedly tended and nourished for eighteen years is so loosely planted in the soil that it can be torn thence by the first blast of life!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43220.35The dying woman, who had for so man} years been regarded by them as a useless encumbrance, sud- denly became a patient sufferer; and since Baron Mainau re- turned from the Indian garden so grave and serious, the foot- men hovered about the stairways and passages on tiptoe, and all unnecessary noise, all singing and whistling, was avoided in the stables and carriage-houses, as if the dying woman were lying in the castle itself.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47310.35He has fought a better fight than his brother, who suc- cumbed to his anguish.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19650.35With all her apparent -harshness, she loved me far too much to endure the thought of leaving me in the city to be miserable.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16860.35Hell can fur nish no sharper torture than I underwent behind that door !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9040.35The tears will come for pity for the poor hungry fellow whom they now accuse of thieving."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28680.35"How cruel to be disappointed now, when the poor invalid has taken such delight in the plans that you brought her!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32350.35"It must be a hard task to pluck a few flowers and carry them to a poor invalid!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43030.35None of the electric shocks that had wrought such destruction in the business world had been felt here.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34510.35Leo, my life which belongs to you had been in danger, my blood was in a ferment, and—then you irritated me further."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26370.35I could not forgive myself, did I not know that I, in common with the rest of us, have nerves and blood that will not always yield the mastership to my will.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53750.34Shortly after her visit to the Claudius house, the Princess had a rheumatic attack, and was ordered away from K for her health, by her physician.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34670.34"We are the descendants of the foundling whose parentage has been a mystery until this hour, for the papers which would have established him in his rights were destroyed when the townhouse at L—— was burned down.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6610.34Then she often passed distressing nights with my grandmother I It was uncomfortable news for me ; in wy happy, healthy sleep, I had never suspected that any- THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10200.32‘ On that night, when death came so suddenly and unexpectedly to Dom Enriquez, no one stood beside his bed save the Visconde , a ‘handsome, proud, courageous man, and myself,’ thus the German physician continues.

Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_29890.91The assassin kills you at a blow,--this villain tortures, prolongs your sufferings, and leaves you, after the death-blow has been inflicted, to sink under the gnawing agonies of want, misery, and despair.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_61610.87Prolonged pain brings on cruel thirst, and many a poor fellow suffered horribly from it during the last hours of his pillory.
Harland_At_Last_30480.87The disease had made fearful inroads upon a constitution that had never been robust, and the nervous excitability of the patient was likely to accelerate her decline.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_164200.87P.S.--My poor grandmother gets worse and worse; yesterday her fever amounted to delirium; to-day her delirium is almost madness.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_165060.87-- My poor grandmother gets worse and worse; yesterday her fever amounted to delirium; to-day her delirium is almost madness.
Collins_Armadale_162720.87A nervous patient who always has his own way is a nervous patient who is never worried; and a nervous patient who is never worried is a nervous patient cured.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_77190.86The malady left her at last, but in that terrible state of bodily weakness in which the patient feels life a burden.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_77180.86But physical and mental excitement had brought on an attack of fever so violent, that nothing but youth and constitution saved her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_175880.86I sick since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_98590.86It was not annihilation that she feared, but a continuation of existence that might be worse than death,--the uncertainty whether the soul perished with the body.
Harland_Alone_55560.86She had never been sick a day in her life; but she began to feel that mental ills may be aggravated by bodily disease.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_188060.86"Doctor, every son of woman is born to suffer and to die; I am content to suffer and to await death."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_45920.86You know that some physicians declare madness to be a mere illness of the brain--an illness to which any one is subject, and which may be produced by given causes, and cured by given means."
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_19600.86His constitution, shattered by intemperance and continued dissipation, was not proof against the fever that ensued; delirium never left him.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_9160.85His strength had been worn down by the privations of his island life; his nerves, usually like steel, were becoming unstrung; his mind had fallen into a morbid state, and was a prey to a thousand strange fancies.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_271150.85He is lost to us; for, should he recover from the cholera, I fear he will fall a victim to a horrible and incurable disease."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_185340.85"It is painful to think that the labor by which the poor man earns his daily bread, often becomes a long suicide!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_24300.85Oh, no, I am not ill; I have mistaken the effects of sorrow, cold, and want of rest, for the precursory symptoms of illness.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_31860.85"If your brains are not blown out here, the scaffold awaits you--" "I prefer the scaffold,--I shall live, at least, two or three months longer.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_118750.85Have pity on me; think of my condition: do not doom me to live in terror by night and day: have I not enough to endure, my own darling?
Reade_Foul_Play_28510.85However, we have reduced the fever; the symptoms of delirium have been checked, and I think we shall escape brain fever if he is kept quiet.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_105730.85He knew that misery and wretchedness are the right and best condition of those who live so that misery and wretchedness are the natural consequences of their life.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_27810.85He had come from India for his year's leave in a very poor state of health, and with apprehended heart disease.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_121410.85I have often tried to reason myself into the belief that the evil day must come sooner or later, and to prepare myself for it; but I might have spared myself, for it could not have been worse than it is if I had never anticipated it.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_930.85When a man suffers tortures for months at a time, and is crippled and confined to bed, how can he help being irritable?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_229990.85would not M. Noirtier also have fallen a victim, had not the treatment he has been pursuing for the last three years neutralized the effects of the poison?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_72650.85For several days the poor fellow lay in a very dangerous condition, hovering between life and death.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_25940.85Already three nights and three days of incessant toil and anxiety, in which no one had slept, had produced their natural effects.
Collins_No_Name_58640.85There is no positive disease; there is only a chronic feebleness -- a fatty degeneration -- a want of vital power in the organ itself.
Collins_Armadale_9920.85It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_59830.83Sometimes a man inflicts a wellnigh fatal wound and leaves his victim to cure it as best she may.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_19330.83But how many poor victims of appetite have been haunted to the grave by such resolves--shattered and gone almost as soon as made!
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_1220.83The unnatural strength, the result of excitement, was fast leaving the sick man.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_63230.83Imagine now the severest cramp you ever felt artificially prolonged for hours and hours.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_55490.83Then he made me tell him about this long sickness and the years of frail health and some of the sorrows through which I had toiled.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_44280.83Mother began it by such a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism as I could not have supposed she could live through.
Lewald_Hulda_51340.83She left the house, to try what physical exercise would effect in reducing her mental restlessness.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_68640.83Long-continued wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had brutalized him, etc.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_23710.83Life had not used them ill in this time, and the fairish treatment they had received was not wholly unmerited.
Harris_Rutledge_70950.83Such a trial, it seemed to me, would be the worst of all: as long as there is work there is a panacea, but take away that, and the burden grows intolerable.
Evans_Macaria_34740.83"I am well enough in body; it is my mind only that is ill at ease; my heart only that is sick--sorely sick.
Evans_Beulah_85060.83She lived, as it were, in a perpetual brain fever, and her physical frame suffered proportionably.
Collins_Armadale_74890.83Month by month, as she became the weaker woman physically, she became the worse woman morally.
Broughton_Nancy_76920.83I am grieved to tell you that he was taken ill this morning; I sadly fear that it is this wretched low fever that is so much about.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_71050.83The excitement of the last few weeks had greatly impaired her strength, and it was feared that her life was in danger.
Alcott_Work_7350.83Now, I fancied you were one of those who wouldn't leave a poor fellow to his fate, if his salvation lay in your hands."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_73780.83* Scott, of course: "The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_17910.82Yet all this might be endured, aye, even cheerfully, for use has familiarised them with hardships and privations; their bread is food, though coarse and homely, their straw bed rests their weary limbs, and their children, though stunted and sickly, live on.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_184440.82Would hunger, cold, or misery diminish this dreadful dolor?--or is it the dread pain that would make me forget hunger, cold, and misery?
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_32260.82He had now narrowly escaped dying without an heir, and this seemed to sink into his mind, and, co-operating with the concussion his brain had received, brought him into a morbid state.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28600.89And then she had such a fine head of hair; raven-black and so becomingly arranged: a crown of thick plaits behind, and in front the longest, the glossiest curls I ever saw.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24720.86A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7810.86Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66240.85I folded my shawl double, and spread it over me for a coverlet; a low, mossy swell was my pillow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28620.85She wore an amber-coloured flower, too, in her hair: it contrasted well with the jetty mass of her curls."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72150.84His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1250.83A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30970.82A crimson velvet robe, and a shawl turban of some gold-wrought Indian fabric, invested her (I suppose she thought) with a truly imperial dignity.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66700.81I had a small silk handkerchief tied round my throat; I had my gloves.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35690.81She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51790.79Your eyebrows have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled, 'a blue-piled thunderloft.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56750.79I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69060.78One, to be sure, had hair a shade darker than the other, and there was a difference in their style of wearing it; Mary's pale brown locks were parted and braided smooth: Diana's duskier tresses covered her neck with thick curls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56740.77"It seemed, sir, a woman, tall and large, with thick and dark hair hanging long down her back.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10730.77The two younger of the trio (fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70840.76My black silk frock hung against the wall.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30600.75This I quickly was: my best dress (the silver-grey one, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and never worn since) was soon put on; my hair was soon smoothed; my sole ornament, the pearl brooch, soon assumed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77200.74She had then on a dark-blue silk dress; her arms and her neck were bare; her only ornament was her chestnut tresses, which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28610.74She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19370.74You are -- " He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady's-maid.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27490.73There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44340.73The hue of her dress was black too; but its fashion was so different from her sister's -- so much more flowing and becoming -- it looked as stylish as the other's looked puritanical.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33270.72Then appeared the magnificent figure of Miss Ingram, clad in white, a long veil on her head, and a wreath of roses round her brow; by her side walked Mr. Rochester, and together they drew near the table.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44330.72This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7700.72Seen now, in broad daylight, she looked tall, fair, and shapely; brown eyes with a benignant light in their iris, and a fine pencilling of long lashes round, relieved the whiteness of her large front; on each of her temples her hair, of a very dark brown, was clustered in round curls, according to the fashion of those times, when neither smooth bands nor long ringlets were in vogue; her dress, also in the mode of the day, was of purple cloth, relieved by a sort of Spanish trimming of black velvet; a gold watch (watches were not so common then as now) shone at her girdle.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7590.72Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94220.71"Just to comb out this shaggy black mane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83590.71"The match must have been got up hastily," said Diana: "they cannot have known each other long."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78940.71Having said this, he took his hat, which lay on the table beside my palette.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53230.71And one could cut a pretty enough scarf out of a rainbow."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50580.71I took a plain but clean and light summer dress from my drawer and put it on: it seemed no attire had ever so well become me, because none had I ever worn in so blissful a mood.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45740.71Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19130.71His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75780.71There appeared, within three feet of him, a form clad in pure white -- a youthful, graceful form: full, yet fine in contour; and when, after bending to caress Carlo, it lifted up its head, and threw back a long veil, there bloomed under his glance a face of perfect beauty.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44300.70There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30900.70Her black satin dress, her scarf of rich foreign lace, and her pearl ornaments, pleased me better than the rainbow radiance of the titled dame.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33380.70She, too, was attired in oriental fashion: a crimson scarf tied sash-like round the waist: an embroidered handkerchief knotted about her temples; her beautifully-moulded arms bare, one of them upraised in the act of supporting a pitcher, poised gracefully on her head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4220.70Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers, of which she had found a store in a drawer in the attic.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94180.69I passed my finger over his eyebrows, and remarked that they were scorched, and that I would apply something which would make them grow as broad and black as ever.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51520.68"Not at all, sir; I ask only this: don't send for the jewels, and don't crown me with roses: you might as well put a border of gold lace round that plain pocket handkerchief you have there."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42620.68I remember her appearance at the moment -- it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2630.68Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana's doll.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54760.67It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table, garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet: for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment; the pearl-coloured robe, the vapoury veil pendent from the usurped portmanteau.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30860.66Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82810.66Dark handsome new carpets and curtains, an arrangement of some carefully selected antique ornaments in porcelain and bronze, new coverings, and mirrors, and dressing-cases, for the toilet tables, answered the end: they looked fresh without being glaring.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53490.66With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30930.66The Dowager might be between forty and fifty: her shape was still fine; her hair (by candle-light at least) still black; her teeth, too, were still apparently perfect.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57520.66She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands as soon as I could.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70870.66There were the means of washing in the room, and a comb and brush to smooth my hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29750.66However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4350.89Above the brow a profusion of snow-white curls was most carefully arranged, and covered by a black lace kerchief which was tied beneath the chin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1150.89Her unbound hair fell in masses over the pillow and covering of the bed-the golden ends lying in curls upon the dark floor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43470.86The beautiful woman can no longer adorn her white, faultlessly-shaped arm with the costly bracelet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4340.85A negligé of heavy black silk enveloped her small figure, it was short enough to show a pair of exquisitely shaped feet, whose tread was somewhat uncer- tain.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6180.84No one would have recognized the graceful form of the little Felicitas under the thick coarse shawl, which completely enveloped her from top to toe, and was pinned together with a large pin under her chin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1690.84This cap and a black dress of the plainest cut with tight sleeves and narrow white cuffs at the wrists gave a puritanical air to her whole appearance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2040.83In the mean while the little girl whom Hellwig had set down upon the floor, had taken off her pink hood, and ex: posed to view a charming head covered with thick chestnut curls.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10870.82Within was a golden bracelet lying upon cotton wool,——no precious stone enriched it, but its weight showed it to be of massive solid gold.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28360.81It lay upon the closely-cut lawn with all its four leaves delicately spread out.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43600.79Since that time, among the coarse, gray, and white balls in her knitting-basket, a small pink piece of knitting has lain concealed, upon which Madame works often in secret.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9570.79Her form was rather fuller, and the folds of her skirt were perhaps broader and more imposing than before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9250.79a red dress and yellow shoes like a rope-dancer!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22640.79Don’t you think, Frederika, that she will look lovely in this blue dress that she is going to wear?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15420.79It was certainly worn and faded, but it was faultlessly clean, and smoothly ironed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1610.77The service was of massive silver, and the pattern upon the white damask table-cloth shone like satin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10180.77Ileavensl look what a monstrous leaf that isl" She pointed to a long leaf, the point of which was most artistically curled.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5280.75The latter, whose haughtyfeatures were nevertheless brilliant with gayety and wit, was dressed after that hideous old fashion which strove to reproduce the costume of the Greeks The short~waisted white satin dress was made yet shorter in the waist by a broad gold-embroidered girdle, and the almost ‘too luxuriant beauty of the neck and arms was barely covered, and harmonized but ill with the simple bouquet of modest violets worn at the girdle.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18440.74There, upon the wall, was hanging a long row of well-painted portraits in oil, all stately respectable men, with sparkling diamonds on their fingers, and in their faultlessl y tied cravats.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1680.73Smooth bands of hair were laid above a brow still fair, and the rest of the head was covered by a spotless muslin cap.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2140.73"Frederika, put this chi1d’s hood and cloak on," she said, pointing to the little garments upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31920.72She had on a richly trimmed coquettish black silk apron, a dark crimson rose peeped out from among her fair curls just above her left ear,—she had evidently plucked it from its stem as she passed the parent-bush and placed it where it now was, unconsciously, while lost in thought,—-the effect was charming.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17450.72Her head was resting upon her arm, which was lying upon the window-sill; the snowy forehead and the glittering splendour of the hair contrasting strangely with the gray stone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4590.71The old lady drew up her slender little figure.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6940.70There was not a speck of dust upon his well-fitting black dress ——not a hair out of place above the smooth forehead, across which he passed his white hand continually Everything about him was fastidious!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8570.69But then they would not really break down for many years to come, and were not to compare with the slender rope upon which Felicitas had seen little girls, smaller than she, dancing at fairs.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24270.69She wore a black lace cap instead of the stiff white muslin one, the style of which had been unchanged for so many years.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13990.69It was not like that soft yellow hair which had fallen in such sparkling waves from under the helmet of the juggler’s beautiful wife.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_930.66The white folds of some heavy texts ure fell to the floor from under the shiny scales of the armour which covered her hips, while a dazzling breastplate concealed her magnificent bust.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32690.66She leaned back In her chair as though stiffened into stone, and the stocking that she was knitting fell from her hands, and the white ball of yarn rolled into the middle of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2080.66The rosy shoulders contrasted charmingly with the light-blue woollen dress, the delicate embroidery of which had perhaps been the last work of loving hands now cold in death.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9400.66To this lovely head belonged a body of exquisite proportions, clothed almost always in white muslin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9240.66You can take it and buy a red dress and yellow shoes to wear at the next fairl" "Oh, you miserable fellow!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40500.66In order to hide her dishevelled hair she had wound around her head a white tulle scarf.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4040.66The decorations of the coflin were of massive silver, and the head of the departed rested upon white satin cushions.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14000.63It was not yet very long,—bot of immense thickness, and was with difiiculty confined in a large knot at the back of the head.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9430.62The hand that had curled the thin flaxen hair so artistically, had laboured in vain,—it had only heightened the plainness of the face, whose pallo: was further enhanced by an elegant dress, but poorly adapted to conceal the misshapen figure and swollen joints of the pa or child.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1630.61She was a tall broad-shouldered woman, just over forty.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40970.60The transfiguring tulle fell from her head upon her neck, disclosing the dishevelled hair in which the crimson rose placed there in the afternoon was perishing miserably.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8160.58Frederika had taken it off of her one evening, and it had vanished, and she had Worn these ugly dark dresses ever since.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9930.57There was the same graceful figure, somewhat slighter and more maidenly, and clad in coarse dark stuff, while that unfortunate woman had been surrounded by the glittering tinsel of the theatre.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8140.57Shyly, with bated breath she lifted the cover; on top lay the light-blue dress with the delicate embroidery upon the skirt and sleeves.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10920.56she asked, still examining the bracelet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34490.56She carefully lifted the cover—a thick book, bound rather coarsely in leather, met her eyes,—the still‘ leaves were gaping open, and the corners of the covers Were bent and worn with age.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10710.54We have good store here, though; there is not much to be done, and we can send oil‘ a most respectable bundle if you will only take a few stitches for me," and she held up a little cap in one hand and a rcll of very narrow lace in the other.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6930.54She looked up for one moment at the tall, slender figure before her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19050.54They Were the remains of a lace pocket handkerchief.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13420.53The woollen cover of the table, and several embroidered cushions had been banished because they collected the dust, and upon another table, instead of the Parian statuettes which had formerly adorned the room, were most symmetrically arranged the I’rofessor’s books.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24140.51he cried again and again, running his thick hard fingers continually through his coarse, bushy gray hair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8250.51Beneath the crest were finely cut the letters git, 1:, That must have belonged to her mamma, and the child’s little fingers had stolen it from her desk.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24840.51The silk ribbons with which it was tied together were loosened one after the other by Madame’s large determined fingers, and ahl how eagerly the blazing fire devoured them!

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33950.94She who had worn these garments must have been a wonderfully small and delicate creature, for the silk skirts,—most of them bordered with embroidery in gold thread,—were as short as though made for a child; and the shape of the black and violet velvet bodices, with their silken ribbons and tinsel trimmings, must have fitted an exquisite, pliant, maiden waist.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3830.92A close black velvet jacket, trimmed with fur, showed the full, graceful outlines of bust and waist, and upon her brown hair sat, a little to one side, a cap of marten-skin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1820.92She had a fine Roman profile, and a delicate, supple frame, but her light hair was wanting in thickness; it was cut short, and, smoothed away from the brow, curled in soft, flimsy curls about the head and neck.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18490.91Wide sleeves lined with silk tell back from the shoulders, leaving the arms bare, except for their covering of delicate lace, the same that was gathered to the throat from the square-cut neck of the dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55160.91And what hair I Short, raven curls were brought low upon the brow, and others, long and heavy, fell down upon each side of the massive braids that covered the back of the graceful head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5290.91Beneath the hem of her long white muslin dress, which enveloped her form to the throat, peeped out two tiny feet encased in gold-embroidered satin slippers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2220.90Her gray hair, still streaked here and there with its original hue of shining gold, was puffed thickly above her brow, and above these puffs she wore a veil-like scarf of white tulle, the long ends of which concealed the throat and the neck just below the chin, where age so surely sets its seal.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10160.90Soil folds of white mus- lin enveloped the lithe form to the feet, which lay exposed, naked, small, and white as wax.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34070.90Within, upon a dark velvet cushion, lay ornaments of antique workmanship, bracelets, brooches, a necklace of gold coins, and several strings of costly pearls.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5190.90Her veil fell over her face and down from the back of her head to the hem of her white tulle dress, which was made after the simplest fashion, gathered in about the throat, and adorned with a few sprays of myrtle ; there was no sign of the silver brocade ; the bride of the simplest commoner could not have been more plainly attired.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18790.89Within sparkled tho purple gleam of a fine amethyst set in small brilliants, forming an ornament to hang from a ribbon around the neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6900.89The basket was lined with blue silk, and in it, upon a folded fabric of costly lace, lay a spray of blossoming myrtle drawn through her betrothalring.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24640.89He saw a mass of dark braids, whence behind the ear a couple of short curls strayed upon the neck; he saw one hand gracefully lift the train of the dress.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34350.89Her long black robe swept the floor, and the ends of her black lace scarf streamed behind her like loosened tresses of dark hair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45630.89The large emerald solitaires of her necklace glittered in her hair, confining a spray of snow-drops among its red- golden waves. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2640.89The girl had loosened her hair, and it rippled down, rich, heavy, golden red in hue, almost to the hem of her light muslin dress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5730.88Her robe was trimmed with ermine ; and her scraggy shoulders supported a head upon the high, powdered hair of which was placed a coronet.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15610.88Around the upper part of her neck she wore a velvet ribbon so narrow that it seemed almost like a thin line drawn by a paint-brush.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_780.88Here she hastily took off her bonnet and placed upon her lovely fair hair a boy’s cap, trimmed with fur, which she drew from under her cloak.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4400.88In the picture he had on a green coat and a long white feather in his cap, that was most beautiful to see dangling among his coal-black curls.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3800.87A thick, though somewhat faded carpet was laid upon the floor, and a large antique timepiece stood beneath the mirror.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27470.87The big blue linen apron concealed her figure with its stiffly-starched folds, and the outline of the bust was completely lost beneath the coarse kerchief that was crossed upon her breast and knotted behind.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19360.87A little cap of lace, fine and transparent as a cobweb, was thrown negligently upon her glossy dark hair, setting off to great advantage the oval of her face, which was very beautiful, although, perhaps, rather full for so young a person ; a light morning rebe hung in loose folds about her tall figure, only confined at the waist, which was finely turned, but by no means slim, by a narrow belt. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7370.86And the wreath was not alone,—it was encircled by the same necklace that sparkled upon Titania’s white bosom, now heaving so tumultnously; and the agraffe which confined the silvery veil upon her shoulders was here also, with its large, bluish brilliants.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27100.86She thought as little of the exquisite form and dazzling whiteness of her shoulders and arms as of the beauty and grace of her head, which, with its heavy braids of golden hair, was set so exquisitely upon her finely-moulded neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18490.86The bridal-veil still floats down from her head and the delicate myrtle wreath still encircles her fair brow.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8690.86She had on a light morning-gown, and her thick fair hair was gathered into a net with blue ribbons.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30360.86And by his side fluttered a white dress, and the lovely girl who wore it, and who hung upon his arm ‘ as if she had a right there,’ wore.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13830.86His linen, however, was faultlessly white and clean, and in his cravat sparkled a paste diamond in an oldfashioned setting.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9400.86A black slouched hat was pulled down over his face, and his summer coat had been exchanged for a light cloak.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44560.86His head was uncovered, his dark hair lay in dishevelled locks upon his forehead, and his face was very pale.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22960.86She had noticed, in the "ridiculously small" looking-glass enclosed in a brown frame, that her thin hair was disarranged.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2200.86She was not apparelled in the dress of old age; a fichu of white lace was crossed upon her breast and knotted behind at the waist.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12970.86She twisted the discoloured pansies about, above her frizzled yellow hair, tossed the hanging strings back over her shoulders, put on a large black woollen shawl, and was ready to go.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14800.85In the centre of the table, the most fitting place, one would have thought, for Leo's picture lay, upon a silken cushion, under a glass case, a faded, light-blue satin slipper.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30920.85Bed gleamed from beneath his chin, and there was a glitter of gold on his breast and shoulders ; he was in uniform.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18680.85She had completed her travelling costume by the addition of a pair of dark cotton gloves, and looked quite imposing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_110.85They were all familiar with her black crape cap and her large square shawl thrown about her shoulders, with the tripping feet in white stockings, about which the black shoestrings were crossed several times after the old fashion, with the green satin knitting-bag on her arm, and with the intelligent white poodle that always trotted beside his venerable mistress.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7960.84Both wore dark dresses, which, contrary to the prevailing mode, fell limp and close around them, large scarfs of black woollen stuff, and brown, round straw hats, tied, in the case of the mother, with black ribbon, while the daughter had a lilac bow beneath her chin.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18680.83He drew from under his chair the small box, from which a piece of the cover hung down loosely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17500.83There was an immense quantity of rich gilt arabesque interspersed among and around the gay frescos.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12860.83Above it arched the immense brown straw hat which Use had trimmed with a black ribbon.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7300.83He hastily took out one black velvet cushion after another, all covered with jewels, and carelessly laid them aside.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14330.83Might not the girl with the dark masses of Waving hair boldly compare herself with the other’s fairness?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13770.83Well, then, that must be she,—a tall, slender lady in a well-fitting dress of some soft dark material.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34950.83The faded silk of which they were made was torn here and there, and showed perfectly the shape of the foot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12520.83The dark mahogany furniture suited the faded leather hangings admirably.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21150.83She was dressed in pink silk, her neck and arms were covered with costly lace, and her round straw hat was trimmed with apple-blossoms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7260.83She had taken off her tipper garment; her wide linen sleeves hung gleaming white from her shoulders, and her half-unbraided hair was streaming down her back.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2690.83I looked up at him, and saw a broad hatbrim shading half his face, and a pair of large blue spectacles that threw a corpselike hue upon the cheeks beneath them. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55150.82The gorgeous dress was, it is true, somewhat worn and faded along the seams and at the elbows ; but the form that it clothed was tall and slender, the slight train lent a royal dignity to the figure, and the square cut of the boddice revealed a das- zlingly-white neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2020.82Her picture is still hanging over there in Castle Arnsberg,—-a lithe, slender figure, large, lustrous, coal-black eyes, a skin like ivory, and masses of '..'air, shining, golden hair."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19830.82Upon the small strip of white neck left bare by her neckerchief there was still the narrow black velvet ribbon, now half untied.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25670.82What had she just been saying,—that figure in the dim background, not tall enough to allow more of her to be seen than the defiant movement of the white lace fichu above the golden blonde curls on the forehead?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55140.81She threw off her cloak and bonnet, and stood before me clad in purple velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54450.81How thick and heavy the black curls lay upon the white ermine !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25930.81She had on a white gown, and her long flaxen hair fell almost down upon her sash.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8170.81Thus, her head crowned with thick golden-brown braids, she looked still taller.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2210.81The overskirt of her pearl-gray silk gown was richly trimmed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15500.81She looked very beautiful in her white cashmere dress, with its soft, sweeping train.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45920.81All the guests who owned diamonds and jewels wore them, sprinkled upon curls, or upon neck and arms, shining satin or puffed tulle.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3160.81The sisters were of the same height, above middle size, sylph-like forms, with beautiful hands and feet, and supple, taper fingers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30480.81The old lady was still in the brown silk dress, over which she had tied a large white linen apron to deaden the rustle of the silk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42050.80Here were no swelling cushions with costly coverings of satin damask; but the furniture, although carved in rare woods, was as ungraceful, stiff, and angular as the straight backs of its former posses- sors.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_590.80It pro- jected like the broad brim of a hat, and screened from View her brow and nose, while the lower part of her face was even more completely concealed by the thick folds of the linen.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2200.80As she was carried into the house upon her uncle’s arm the girl’s hat had fallen from her head, revealing a mass of fair hair, the golden colour of which was all the more remarkable as her delicately pencilled eyebrows and long lashes were coal black.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3800.79The fragment in my hand might have been a finger-bone once, perhaps clothed with rosy flesh, slenderly formed, and covered with just such white, smooth skin as I bad seen upon a hand to-day.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14080.79I peeped out from behind Use, and saw several other ladies standing about, one overtopping them all, a tall, strongly-made figure in a white dress, over which she had thrown a flame-coloured jacket embroidered with gold.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13560.79Upon these steps stood an old lady, in a black silk dress, and cap trimmed with gay ribbons, carefully wiping with a cloth the little paws of a pretty greyhouid that had just come in from outside.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3100.79My grandmother was a tall, stalwart woman, her face always covered with an even crimson from the roots of her hair to her massive neck.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6730.79Elizabeth had put on a fresh light muslin dress, and a small, white, round straw hat.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9340.7957 the child's white, finely-formed neck and bust.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17510.79The furniture was white-and-gold, covered with blue silk.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39210.79Again she contemplated herself in the mirror, and pulled the curls lower over her brow.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19860.79Strings of golden coins were twisted about the brow and head that was supported by her hand as she leaned upon her elbow, and they fell over her neck and bosom, beside the long, thick braids of coal-black hair, and upon the gold-broidered jacket of purple silk that covered only the shoulders and a small part of the upper arm.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10850.78Had it not been for the long clerical coat and the spot of smooth ivory on the top of the head, among the dark cluster- ing curls, one would never have suspected the priest in this man.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17290.78And meanwhile he limped about the room wrapping his patched dressing-gown, from the pocket of which dangled a faded cotton pockethandkerchief, about his chest as though it were a robe of costly fur.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47300.77The fan fell from the duchess's hand, and dangled, sparkling, by the delicate chain that confined it to her waist.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15560.77And, as she said this, she nodded energetically, and angrily thrust the horn comb deeper into her knot of gray hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60500.77The skirt of her dress was torn in great rents, and the heavy braids of her hair were tumbling down upon her neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40960.77She had on her travel- ling dress, her Sunday bonnet was upon the table, and near me stood the box containing her scanty wardrobe.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13780.77A gray veil fluttered from her little white straw hat and lay like a col)web over her face.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13960.77Her scanty locks, usually so carefully arranged, were streaming from under a morning-cap across her forehead, no longer white and smooth as ivory, but flushing scarlet.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12900.77She held her hat out at arm’s length before her, and contemplated with admiration the two fresh roses which she had stuck into the simple band of black velvet that encircled it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9940.77The frail figure, its emaciation showing plainly in the close-fitting gay-coloured dress, was actually balanced upon immensely high heels.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7040.76In a moment the tastefully arranged bouquet was thrown into the wildest disorder by the little fingers, which busied themselves with sticking single flowers into the delicately embroidered eyelet-holes of the muslin curtain.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12590.76There, upon green leaves, was comfortably lying a large lemon-coloured caterpillar, with black spots, broad bluish-green stripes upon its back, and a crooked horn upon its tail.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7100.76A lady held the reins with a firm hand; her figure, shown to advantage in a dark velvet costume, trimmed with fur, sat airily and gracefully upon the high cushion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27520.76And why was the dean’s widow thus early in the morning dressed in dark-brown silk, with a fine old white lace barbe upon her gray hair, and the same delicate material around her neck and wrists?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8600.76The air here was heavy with it; it clung to the curtains and hangings.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_700.76She held the frail worn fabric against the light. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19610.76Yes, yes, you may well look at me, little one 1" she said, regarding her beautiful, long white fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16300.76There was a gleam of marble from chests packed with straw.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30370.76a hat and gray veil upon her dark hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21830.76And that thick coal-black hair is just like a gypsy’s.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19400.76She lifted the cover of the basket she had with her and took out a roll of linen.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1790.76She pointed to the white kerchief on the girl’s head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35060.76Reinhard took out a necklace,—it was very broad, and of admirable design.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15850.76But the child took no notice of it, and hid both her hands in her dress.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6500.76She took out her handkerchief, laid the dove in it, and tied it up by the four corners.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38130.76The most you should wear would be a simple coral or pearl necklace."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2950.75It contained a jewel-box, and a piece of heavy white ilk brocade arabesqued with silver.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18470.75She wore a half-train of azure silk, with a waist of velvet of a darker shade.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12690.75Keep them nice 1" And a quantity of stiff woollen stockings took up con* siderable room in the trunk.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16900.75The half-frantic woman thrust her little hands among the masses of hair that hung over her temples.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21080.75The girl blushed, and, tying her kerchief beneath her chin, put the velvet again around her neck. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1590.75But no; there was the end of a thick, dark braid escaping from beneath the kerchief,—her hair was not red.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9110.75Her curls stirred lightly, and her heavy velvet skirt swept the marble floor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51800.75Without knowing it, she brushed by the hanging train, and, with a low rustle, the whole silken fabric fell upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27700.75A thick Turkish carpet covered the entire marble floor of the Moorish room.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1380.75l Little Margarete pulled at the ribbons at her throat T to rid herself of her hat, and glanced carelessly at the embroidered front of the skirt of her White gown.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_870.75The sleeves had been removed from her worn gown, and had ‘ given place to her chemise-sleeves, which fell long and beautifully white down over her elbows.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63100.75A worn violet silk dressing-gown, much soiled, hung loosely about her graceful form, and at the neck and through the holes in the elbows there appeared a night-dress of very doubtful hue.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26090.75She took off her straw bonnet, at the blue ribbons of which the boy was tugging, and revealed a lovely face, fair as a lily, and a head crowned with masses of hair as light as little Gretchen's.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10340.75Several old-fashioned paste shoe-buckles glittered in the girdle of Venus; and the silver crescent upon the forehead of Diana showed the blotting-paper behind it at every movement of the head which it adorned.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16230.75The delicate, olive shoulders were clothed in silver gauze, beneath which glimmered heavy white satin, and a pomegranate-blossom was confined among the thick, dark braids of hair by a diamond brooch.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2340.75Her dress, too, although of simple material, betrayed in its arrangement the greatest care, and the observer could not but suspect that the skirt was so artistically looped not merely that the hem might be kept from the dust, but also with an eye to the neat little boot which it revealed, and which certainly was not made to be hidden beneath the heavy woollen stuff of the dress.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34740.74Meanwhile Ferber, after brushing the dust from the mandolin, took it carefully under his arm, while Reinhard closed the jewel-box and lifted it from the table by the exquisitely wrought handle on the lid.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14300.73I looked down at my shoes, as they sprawled their clumsy proportions upon the gravel, and then I pulled at the skirt of my black dress, to lengthen it, if I might, by even a fraction of an inch.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7110.73White plumes floated back from her brow, and about her classic face and white throat clustered fair curls.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_240.73And the cloud, the cobweb robe, and the ugly head, with its lace nightcap, all crept under the silken canopy of the bed where Frau Dorothea lay, and gathered the fair young creature in long arms, clasping her close, as if to absorb the heart’s blood from her blooming body.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2600.73Beneath those slender ivory fingers my sunburnt hand looked brown as coffee.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18670.73Use carried the tin box, with my grandmother's papers, beneath her black shawl.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17870.73Then she unsewed my bedding and piled up the huge feather-beds on the carved bedstead.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16290.73My brown woollen dress is ridiculously old-fashioned, and the spots upon it can no longer be concealed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27420.73No; it was as white and coarse and ugly as a kerchief tied about the head could be, and it was now full in sight.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13530.73Her cap was set upon her false curls all awry, and the curls themselves were but loosely put on.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37770.73He now unfolded a piece of rich maize-coloured satin and another of violet velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17000.72Gracious goodness 1 silk hangings be- fore the windows, and cobwebs as thick as your finger behind the wardrobes, and dust an inch deep, fine housekeeping !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20400.72A burning blush dyed the girl’s cheeks, and she put her hands behind her to loosen the knot of the large white kerchief she wore crossed upon her breast.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22970.72Therefore she had taken a little white lace fichu from her neck and tied it loosely over the dishevelled curls: the airy fabric crowned her charming head like a saintly halo.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43240.72Much of the furniture had been removed, and in its stead the walls were lined with draped tables covered with a profusion of articles, displayed with great taste and care,—the gorgeous trousseau of the professor’s wife in spe; in the centre of the room, upon a tall dress-stand, hung a robe of snowy satin, covered with lace and orange-blossoms, the heavy train lying long upon the floor,—Flora’s wedding-gown.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28590.71He went back to the window; it was growing quite dark.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27370.71159 hair down upon the blue flowers of the carpet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1660.71She must be a great-grandmother at least, and wear spectacles !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9460.71Use, put the necklace around that little brown neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34060.71I looked up ; no jewelled crown was there to dazzle my eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30840.71I can see the dress and the shoes perfectly well without looking in the glass."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18230.71and a Turkish carpet covers the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6880.71He clumsily took off his cap and adjusted the band on it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43560.71my hair is black as the raven’s wing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37960.71This paste is uncommonly clear and sparkling."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28510.71She was simply dressed in violet silk.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28020.71Even in her light curls there was a blue ribbon.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50000.71The girl had taken off her clean white muslin apron, and with it was gently drying the dripping brow and shoulders of her mistress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43610.71Frau Lhn had swathed her slender form, " this snow-flake," once more in a cloud of fresh white muslin, " because she always liked it so much.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33110.71Near a window there stood a carved cabinet, black with age, and with hinges of delicately en- graved silver.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14620.71You had better take off your shoes and stockings, too 1" She put the ruffle around my neck, smoothed my hair with her hands, and tied on my hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12710.71Colossal feather-beds were tied up into as small a compass as possible, and sewed in bagging, a huge piece of luggage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13810.71She sat quietly by Leo's side, dressed in a simple muslin morning robe, her face quite colourless in contrast with the rosy cheeks of the boy on her left, and against the light wainscot of the room her crown of heavy braids looked red, decidedly red.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8120.71To make the contrast still more striking between the mother and daughter, and to stamp the latter more decidedly as a genuine scion of the von Zweiflingens, who almost all were represented in green velvet, covered with gold embroidery, this youthful figure was rustling in a blue embroidered brocade, cut square in the neck, and trimmed with exquisite lace, yellow with age.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35070.71"These are brilliants of the purest water," he explained to the rest,—the necklace was set thick with precious stones,—"and these rubies here must have gleamed magnificently from the dark curls of the beautiful gypsy girl," he continued, as he took two pins from their velvet cushion with heads formed like lily-cups of red stones, from which chains, set thick with rubies, fell like a glittering little shower.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_360.70His spare figure was wrapped in a military cloak, he had secured his cap upon his head by a pockethandkerchief tied beneath his chin, and a broad stream of light fell upon the path before him from the stablelantern which he carried in his left hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18500.70Even in her silvery bridal attire the faultless form of the " Trachenberg," the pure and delicate complexion of the " red-head," had not shown to such advantage as to-day. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22210.70It certainly would not have been difiicult to harmonize the slouch hat worn by the tall rider with a gypsy captain’s jacket covered with silver coins.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2330.70Her abundant dark hair was arranged evidently with an eye to coquettish effect, and several charmingly curled locks had escaped just above the pale forehead.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43630.70Flora’s beautiful morning dress was of white, trimmed with pink, and a charming breakfast-cap covered her hair, which was _en papillotes_.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52290.70Again she lay upon her lounge beneath the blue satin ceil- ing.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2630.7019 oyer her back, like a glittering cloak, hung a shining mass.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49120.70He felt in his waist- coat pockets, and in the side pockets of his coat. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17030.70But besides the layers of dust and the many-legged spinners, a small door was revealed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1700.70In his hands he held a large vessel of yellowish-gray clay. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12670.70She pushed contemptuously aside a pile of very fine embroidered linen sheets. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7980.70He was a young and handsome man, with a full, light, sandy beard.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6440.70A tall, handsome man in a green jerkin came walking along the road.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20770.70But at the same instantthe girl’s eyes lighted upon the coin dangling on the ribbon.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5340.70He seemed young, tall, and well made, and had a profusion of light-brown hair.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23410.70She plucked at the green silk coverlet, evidently attempting to throw it off.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1790.70One might have thought that she too had just come in covered with snow from the flurry without, so dazzlingly white did she look upon the crimson carpet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32510.70But he was greatly pleased with her highness's riding-whip, that lay on the table before hei The handle terminated in a beautifully modelled tiger's head of wrought gold with diamond eyes. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3750.69Two canopied beds, with hangings dingy with age, that occupied the two long walls of the room, were all made up; the pillows were covered with fine linen cases, and the silken coverlid still preserved its colour and texture.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32940.69Then he took out a thick roll of papers tied with a black riband and handed it to Mainau, who instantly untied it.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2030.69As she did so two thick braids of hair fell far over the balustrade, so that the breeze fluttered the blue ribbons with which they were tied.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44650.69"It is a domino; as much a man's garment as a woman's," she said, in a tone of dull disappointment, letting the garment fall upon the carpet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39000.69His hat was off, the light gleamed upon his snowy hair, but the rest of his handsome old head looked dark and gloomy enough.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31620.69She took posses- sion of me, fastened on the missing bow, and placed a little white straw hat upon my curls.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18580.69His hair was snowy and his cravat as white, while his black coat shone like satin in the morning sun.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17470.69They were hung with blue silk, but the curtains on the south side had faded to a dirty grayish-white.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13260.69He twisted his fingers together on the top of bis head in imitation of the shape of her bonnet, and made a face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12890.69This was my Sunday bonnet in Hanover," she said, going to the mirror and putting the silken roof carefully upon the top of her head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5100.69"Partly, yes," she assented, pulling her straw hat down farther over her eyes; the hand with which she did it was delicate and shapely, although very brown. '
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43520.69They had to tear down the ’worthless trash’ they had put up, because in two dark corners they had substituted woollen for silken damask.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37930.69A crimson light flashed from the stones forming the necklace that lay inside upon black velvet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30440.69The stoneware was again advanced to honour, and the old-fashioned cushioned chairs, with their black serge covers, were in their former places.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_590.68There we have a thin, boyish face, with a pale alabaster-like complexion, a Roman profile, and clustering bl ue-black curls; and here the genuine German type,—a strong, vigorous fair-haired man,—suggestive of the Thuringian silver-leaved fir.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5320.68Her braids hung over her shoulders and lay long and heavy, like serpents of red gold, upon the white marble mosaic of the pavement.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27060.68Elizabeth dressed herself for the concert, that is, she put on a simple, white muslin dress, whose only decoration was a bouquet of fresh wild flowers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45070.68A thick reddish beard covered the lower part of his face; he wore a labourer’s blouse, and was driving two roes before him with his stick.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16560.68The hair that usually lay so smoothly above his brow was rough and tangled; now and then, contrary to the habits of the finished diplomat, he ran his hand through the perfumed locks sprinkled with gray.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9440.68She had put on a huge white cooking-apron over her shabby working-dress, and‘ had rolled up her sleeves; the coarse shawl was laid aside, as well as the kerchief she had worn on her head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14920.68A carefully arranged chestnut-brown moustache covered his upper lip, and his beard; which was unusually fine and silky, fell in soft waves upon his chest.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21550.68It must have been a ridiculous sight, the diminutive girlish figure, in the huge, clumsy ruffle and tossed curls, sitting in the venerable office-chair before the immense folio, over which she was scarcely tall enough to peep !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_200.68She threw back her cape, and with her left hand settled the comb more firmly in the thick braids of hair at the back of her head, while she drew the handkerchief which was tied beneath her chin over her ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_880.68A faded woollen shawl was clumsily crossed on her bosom and tied in a knot behind, and the thick folds of her stifliy-starehed blue apron disfigured her waist and hips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16890.67It contained a bed with a yellow silk quilt, and pillows freshly covered with fragrant linen, an elegant toilet-table draped with yellow, and in a recess in the wall there was a wardrobe with claw feet, and inlaid with coloured woods. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_220.66She was dressed in white, with a spray of pale wild-roses stuck in her belt, and from the pink lining of the parasol that she held above her uncovered head a faint rosy reflection was cast upon her face, upon a delicate short nose tnd full-formed though rather colourless lips.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6760.6641 be imagined to resemble this princely rider, with her long, waving black robes, her masses of coal-black hair hanging down to her waist, too heavy to float on the air, and the ghostly pallor of her beautiful face, in which even the lip were now untinged with red. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14640.66A full dressing-gown entirely enveloped her small figure, and her beautiful brown curls escaped from beneath a morning-cap, trimmed with pink ribbons, which heightened, by force of contrast, the pallor of her countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2310.66What a sight he was when he was brought to the castle on a litterl His clothes were torn and covered with mud, and his hair, that used to be freshly oiled and curled every day, hung over his face like a gypsy’s elf-locks.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32580.66Rich black lace covered her fair curls, and, lying upon the snowy neck, fell in long ends over her shoulders and down her back, like the drooping wings of an angel of night.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19790.66Fraulein Fliedner put a mantilla over her shoul- ders, settled the white cuffs at her wrists and passed her hands over her faultlessly smooth hair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5560.66In a few minutes her bridal dress was exchanged for a gray travelling- suit and round hat with a thick gray veil.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38640.66Liana exchanged her light dress for one darker in hue, put on a black cloak, and drew the hood of it over her head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36210.66He smoothed the embroidered cushion beneath her head, and pushed the bouquet of flowers in the vase nearer to her, that she might more easily inhale their fragrance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1940.66A man in a hunting uniform was standing at the open door,—a gigantic figure, with a huge beard that almost covered his breast.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32820.66The diamonds had disappeared from the third finger, where the "simple circlet of gold that weighed upon her like iron" again gleamed dully through the meshes of the lace.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1770.66It almost seemed as if the deep uniform crimson of the hangings and carpet had been chosen as the only fitting frame for the severe style in which the room was furnished.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22990.66Let us go now and pluck some fruit," she said, gaily, as if nothing had happened, carefully setting her hat upon her curls, and taking up her sunshade. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20270.66The falling ruffle of the lace sleeve could not conceal that the hand trembled vio- lently.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19180.66just as he was about to throw a large piece of silver into the hat, his uncle stayed his lavish hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20750.66By the girl’s hasty gesture the velvet ribbon at her neck had been loosened, and had fallen upon the carpet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53480.66The white cloud of tulle once more enveloped cheek and chin: no mourning should be worn for a scoundrel, she said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49630.66As if in a snow-drift, she reclined among spotless linen, shaded by soft muslin curtains.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45900.66She looked down at the wet sod, and then at her white boot that peeped forth from beneath the flounces of her muslin dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7640.66The walls were hung with woollen tapestry, interwoven with figures.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54970.66The paint on her face is an inch thick, and that imitation ermine !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54020.66Heavens, what beauty I I thought of Snow-white-and-Rose-red.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20200.66figure of the man in tbe brown hat, but the head could not be the same.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6710.66Here"—she unrolled the lace fichu—" is one more treasure,—valuable old e. 6* lace.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26980.66look at those spots of mud upon my white, freshly-scoured floor!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24630.66A slender, elegant figure, of which at first he could only see the back, came into view.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20190.66the wound has been sewn up,—most artistically sewn up,—and I should like to see any one who could find fault with that bandaging."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29100.66The silken garments of the ladies rustled along the walls of the corridor behind her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55770.66Kitty again took up the thick perfumed sheet,—yes, yes, there it really was in the "sprawling hand."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33090.66It was mostly due to her mania for wearing stiff silk dresses.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50510.65Your hair is dripping wet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42650.65Must I remind you of your gray hair ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1410.65Why do they dress me in White gowns?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5790.65Five pieces of silver, one for each pearl.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3590.65What would Use sayf Perfectly new shoes."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32870.65I longed to stamp my foot.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3230.65Now go, child, and get your shoes and stockings.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27460.65She was in her shabby working-dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22680.65why should she not take care of her white hands?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19860.65He would have liked to loosen the ribbon and throw , it away.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15130.65But how about Dame Blue-stocking?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19280.65He took hold of her dress, and tried to pull her on.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12940.65And there is your caterpillar, and now you shall know why I want to black-mail you.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4950.65She pointed to the mirror above the table.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11230.65That delicate foreign creature, lying upon her Eastern couch, draped in a eloud of white muslin, and laden with ornaments like an In- dian princess, and that strongly-built, rough woman, with her German tongue, her white, starched apron, and the high horn comb in the grizzled knot at the back of her head, it was an incredible companionship.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10310.65All the goddesses, without exception, had submitted themselves, in their costume, to the sceptre of the royal fair of France, and wore their white robes over abundant crinoline, which was then the fashion, "For," said Ceres, a trig little blonde, upon whose flushed brow a whole harvest was waving, "one looks so forlorn without crinoline;" and how else could her dress have supported the huge bunches of wheat ears and red poppies with which it was adorned?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9330.65His little naked feet were thrust into slippers, his green velvet breeches, evidently put on in a great hurry, were held up by both hands, and his night-dress, trimmed with lace, fell open and away from his shoulders, letting the moonlight play upon THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1600.64One of them who wore spectacles, and had a long tin box slung upon his back, crept into the opening, and the young man followed him, while the third, a tall, slender man, exam* ined the inner side of the stone that had just been rolled away.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12850.64Then Use put on me my new black dress, and tied around my neck a huge, snow-white linen ruffle from my grandmother's wardrobe, upon which my brown head lay like a ripe hazel-nut upon a little heap of snow.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17820.64When I look at your portrait there, and compare that white satin with my finest dress, my splendid brown woollen gown, I cannot help wondering why I should be excluded from the Paradise in which you could live and shine l" The blind woman groaned, and covered her face with her hands. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5690.64The unlovely insignia of the Trachenbergs, the fiery hair and beard, were here trans- formed to silken silver, covering head and upper lip.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27320.64She put on a white dressing-gown, and, as she had a racking head- ache, her maid loosened and unbraided her heavy hair, that always brought her relief.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6860.64Her head was resting upon a white pillow, and warm coverings were spread over her entire figure, which, in spite of its wrappings, betrayed decided embonpoint.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24330.64I never dreamed that I should look prettier without the thick muslin rufflo which Charlotte boldly took from my neck, my face would not be one whit less brown above such soft lace as she herself was wearing, and the little ears that grew so scarlet at every change of emotion would be no paler in colour when not contrasted with the waves of white muslin.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4310.63I often thought, in my stupid way, that if pretty Lieschen, the most beautiful girl in the village, could only have been painted and hung in such a rich gold frame, with a silken scarf and such quantities of jewels upon her neck and in her hair, and the blackamoor with his silver waiter standing just behind her lovely face and neck, she would have looked a thousand times prettier than the lady who was so ugly, and frowned so with pride and arrogance that two great wrinkles went up to the very roots of her hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54000.63A lady had entered noiselessly, a tall figure in a black velvet cloak and a broad ermine collar.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44360.63She threw her broken umbrella into a corner, and her dripping shawl upon a sofa, while she dried her face and hair with her handkerchief.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40100.63Among a number of faces I could not select my mother's, I only know that she was tall and slender, and had long black curls falling upon her shoulders.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31930.63I asked, summoning all my courage, as I smoothed his ruffled locks, and tied bis satin cravat beneath his chin. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17900.63"Early to-morrow we \ull go to the other house," she said to me, as she took a fresh white ruffle out of the trunk and laid it on the toilet-table. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1610.63I could not see his face ; his back was towards me ; but I thought him old, for his gestures were sedate, and the narrow strip of hair that showed below his brown hat was certainly gray. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7990.63His clothes were worn, but the collar about his neck was snowy white and his hands showed their master’s love of cleanliness. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11120.63Indeed, I’m very sorry for him," he went on, with genuine compassion, running his hand through the thin white hair beneath his velvet skull-cap. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2150.63But although her slender, graceful figure was something above middle size, she seemed at this moment like a pretty king-bird measuring itself with an eagle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50270.63She drew the cloud of black tulle closer about her grandmother’s chin and neck and rearranged her disordered hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17890.63109 Itself beside the yellow silk damask, and how timidly the fine linen pillow-cases shrank up beside my sheet- ing, in which at quite a distance I could count the threads I But Use contemplated the work of her hands with immense satisfaction ; it was stout and strong, no one could deny that.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36560.63She would have liked to look as like the May as Kitty, and her emaciated figure was enveloped in clouds of white muslin; but she was cold, and had wrapped about her shoulders a soft white shawl of embroidered crape, over which her abundant hair fell in rich waves; it had never been coiled up since her last attack.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9900.63The stalwart form, in which the blood had coursed restlessly, lay stretched beneath a white sheet, and was only to be recognized by the mag- nificent gray braids that had slipped out and fell to the floor over the side of the bed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2280.63In her fair hair was twisted a flame-coloured velvet ribbon, and she was in very elegant full dress, save that by her side, where other ladies wear a chatelaine, she carried a small oval osier basket lined with little cushions of blue satin, among which sat a canary-bird.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46800.62The stately figure who with folded arms leaned against the wall beside her seat would protect her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3430.62The golden-red hair fell over her breast and concealed her pro- file.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3180.62Heavy and stiff, as only such brocade can be, its folds fell upon the floor with a rustle that was almost metallic.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25930.62151 comiDg out of the Indian cottage with strips of white linen hanging over her arm.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34550.62Had it not been for his deep voice and his carefully waxed moustache, I should have declared him to be a woman in disguise. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32540.62The thick, fair curls fell across the white fingers, I shrank back.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30630.62Near her sat Fraulein Fliedner in pearl-gray silk, and a blonde cap, and I saw no one else. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5540.62Had he committed a crime in touching the ugly straw hat and that ‘scarecrow’ of a kerchief?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24570.62He gazed at the full flowing reddish beard that lay upon the patchwork quilt.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7080.62She looked up, and found herself so close to the villa that she could distinguish the pattern of the lace curtains at its windows.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2560.62It was almost monstrous, the large head crowned with stiff red hair, and the face, of the fiat-nosed negro type, not even possessing the charm of a clear complexion.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_250.62, " You did not shout this time either, Gabriel," a little boy Said, angrily, to another, taller than himself, beside him, whose plain white linen suit contrasted oddly with the rich dresses of the children among whom he stood.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30450.62But when at last the maid drew forth, from the bottom of the basket, an exquisitely small pair of black satin boots, and held them up before my eyes with a smile, Use left the room without a word.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52750.62In this small apartment the old furniture was placed, the bed aired, and covered with the faded brown silk coverlet which the Frau President had not seen for years, and which caused her a shudder of disgust.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14930.62Henriette was seated at it, making the tea; again she had scarlet ribbons in her blonde hair, and a sleeveless jacket of the same brilliant colour over a light blue silk dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3370.62I had read in stories of pearl-embroidered slippers and little red shoes, and the very paper upon which these charming fairy-tales were printed had seemed to me too coarse and thick to serve as soles for such ethereal articles of costly satin and velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11560.62Frau Griebe1’s kitchen, neat as it was, could scarcely compare with this one, where all the tin and copper relics of the grand kitchen furniture at Grelsungen shone spotless, and the wooden-ware hung white as snow upon the walls.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13890.62His figure, with its broad shoulders and erect carriage, and the fine bearded face, belonged of right, it seemed, to a soldier, and should have been clad in uniform, were it only the green coat of a forester, He handed the glass to the young girl, with a courteous inclination.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5100.61The rain sprinkled her dark-violet velvet ribbons, and glittered upon her smooth hair by the side of several brilliants saved from the wreck.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46280.61A maid followed her, bearing a huge bundle of linen upon her head, and a basket upon her arm, containing bandages, provisions, and all manner of necessary articles.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1150.61Her round, broad-brimmed straw hat had fallen back from her head, and, held only by the ribbon-strings around her neck, formed an aureole behind the dark curls that Were floating on the Wind.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31630.61I cast a glance towards the mirror, and suddenly dis- covered that my hair, that had always been to me an abomination, curled in really charming short black curls, and contrasted wonderfully well with the white ribbons of my hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30490.61Then the maid immersed me in the clouds of gauze, and put a black velvet bow here and there ; the cloudy fabric was everywhere around my arms and shoulders, flowing from my waist to the tips of my satin boots, and I in the midst of it all !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10170.61One arm, slight and thin like that of an undeveloped girl of thirteen, was bare to the shoulder, and lay listlessly along the thigh, its wrist and upper part encircled by broad glittering rings of gold, which seemed as if they must chafe the tender white flesh.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_700.61" For which my portrait will be hung with black crape in future."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42410.61she eighed, covering her crimsoned face with her apron.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38860.61You are going just as you are, in a velvet cloak, and with an umbrella, to walk to Rudisdorf ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46150.61He himself, wrapped in a cloak, his hat in his hand, appeared upon the threshold.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4540.61Cut them off, Use," I said, holding out my long, un- comfortable curls to her.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8470.61‘She always has pretty little leather boots on; I can see that much, even if she does get out of our way as if there were poison on our clothes."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22610.61She had the gray veil of her hat wound about her head."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47010.61and will you dress your own hair while Caroline washes and irons?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_690.61What enormous sums those rows of figures represented!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4320.61He was very tall, much taller than she, and broad-shouldered in proportion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38020.61He passed his hand over the pile of glistening silks.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14520.60That airy young creature, with the wayward turn of her pretty head, her narrow chest, sloping shoulders, and thin, childish arms, half buried in billows of costly lace, looked, in the heavy frame, like a white butterfly bound by a thread, in vain endeavouring to fly away.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_200.60In the sunshine and the breeze that swept the moor, the short curls waved merrily enough about neck and brow ; but down there, in the water, they were drooping raven wings, from beneath which the little crimson glass beads of the necklace dripped like dark-red blood, and the coarse linen shift looked flexible and satin-soft, resembling a large white flower swimming below there, everything was transformed as in some charming old fairy-tale.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8560.60The carpet, rich with blue flowers, was luxu- riously thick; and there were cushioned lounges and chairs everywhere.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3170.60As her mother grumblingly tossed the jewel-box upon the table, Ulrika unrolled the piece of silk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7720.60The carpet, which covered the entire floor, was dark, and the oppressively-low wooden ceiling was almost black.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4560.60The hair was thrown into the fire, the jacket was hung up in the closet, and thenceforth I wore a skirt and boddice like Use's.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_450.60This giant would show a clean pair of heels at any white sheet fluttering in the twilight, and this was my delight.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4000.60I was in the arms of a tall man, with bristly, straw-coloured hair upon his temples, who laughed, "Ha !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19940.60He had drawn gray linen sleeves over his arms, and was busy sorting a mass of little paper packages.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_900.60The gown, although worn and degraded to a working dress, was city-like in its cut, and probably had been inherited from her mistress’s wardrobe. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4910.60Delicate hair-lines on snow-white paper, as becomes a lady who has absolutely nothing to do with duster and broom."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34720.60The forester took up a pair of them; they were scarcely longer than the width of his broad hand,—only Cinderella’s feet could ever have worn them.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41090.60How lovely she was, standing there in spotless white, thoughtfully inclining her head with its crown of heavy braids!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38120.60Such gorgeous stones are not befitting your eighteen years; a plain cross or locket is more becoming so youthful a neck.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30740.60She propped herself on her elbow and buried her hand in the masses of fair hair from which she had tossed away the muslin cap.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42390.60Clau- dius never wore any rings, he was accused of the vanity of not wishing to injure the incomparably fine shape of his hand, but here there is a ring upon the third finger of the left hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4190.60Tables and chairs were snowy white, and behind two great doors in the wall were huge feather-beds covered with clean; fright-coloured counterpanes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3730.60Within lay a square shawl neatly folded, and beside it a large green satin knitting-bag, from the mouth of which there stuck out some dried stems of plants.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10670.60He was undeniably a distinguished figure, and the effect of the refined courtesy of his manner was scarcely impaired by the patched old dressing-gown that fluttered about his spare limbs.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16750.60Her face was buried in the cushions, her wondrous coal-black hair fell loosely over her back and bosom, while her arms, bare to the shoulder, hung down, as if lifeless, over the satin-covered arm of the lounge; her little feet alone had lost nothing of their wonted force, ——they were crushing beneath them the diamond fuchsia wreath upon the floor. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17710.59Her white hat, which she had decked with flowers, had slipped from her dark braids, and was hanging upon her neck by its loose red strings, which, as her motions grew still more earnest, became wholly untied, and the hat fell on the ground without the knowledge of its owner.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12030.59I held in my lap the huge round brown straw hat that Use, about five years before, had procured from the city for me, and I was busy, at her bidding, in stripping from it the pink ribbons that had been the delight of my eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24300.59The tall old gentleman in a summer overcoat, with short gray hair and wash-leather gloves, would have been highly gratified to know that he had been assigned the part of a gypsy captain.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44080.59Oh, how pretty it was 1 I used to have much ado not to run after the airy creature, in her crimson jacket and gay skirt, and clasp her in my rough arms.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28060.59Apparently they were buried and forgotten; even the finger so lately stripped of its ring had found indemnification for its loss, and sparkled in the splendour of diamonds.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5720.58On his left hung the portrait of a lady, a spare, angular figure.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2940.58With a pair of scissors she quickly cut open its en- velope.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16730.58His fingers sank deep in the red-gold masses of her hair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10990.58Why should there be those heavy bracelets on the weak limbs, those massive chains around the neck?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_610.58I loved the little smooth, white things that rolled about in my hand so prettily.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11940.58In one closet were hanging various articles of dress which my grandmother had never worn upon the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5110.58She rested her finger upon her chin and looked down at the tip of her little gold-embroidered boot.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1300.58he said, after awhile, thoughtfully rubbing his stubbly, gray-bearded chin.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10650.58There was a sudden bustle, ladies looking for shawls and scarfs, and gentlemen for their hats.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7090.58" Let him 1" the girl said, bitterly, as she quickly knotted the kerchief beneath her chin. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29350.58The cover again fell off, revealing the "big, sprawling letters" of the title.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18560.58The train was not long enough; the lace not broad enough; and the silk not so heavy as was desirable.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3620.58Upon some of the walls fragments of family portraits were still hanging, upon which, strangely and comically enough, only an eye, or, perhaps, a pair of delicate folded hands, or a mail-clad, theatrically-posed leg, was yet distinctly to be traced.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33970.57The hooks in the press had, in some cases, pierced the mouldering stuffs; and the threads, which had once confined the pearls and spangles of the trimming, hung loose and broken.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49180.57She hurriedly drew her morning cap over her curls, and looking up from beneath them with a Satanic smile that showed her sharp white teeth, she said, as if in reply to his last declaration, "What!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7510.57It was hung with green, old-fashioned curtains of stiff silk, embroidered with delicate golden flowers What a rustling there was as they were drawn aside 1 and how ghastly was the livid face, with closed eyes, be- neath the hard, dark green !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33120.57Herr Claudius opened this odd piece of antique furni- ture and drew out a shallow tray, whereon lay rows of such medals as my father had told me were so rare, neatly arranged on dark velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2680.57He carefully picked up the rest of the pearls from my hand ; and then I saw the gentleman in the brown hat draw out of his pocket a glittering object, that clinked as he held it " Here, my child," he said, putting five large, round, glittering pieces into my hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5280.57In their memory, indeed, luxurious splendour and the bewitching woman were identical; they had never seen her magnificent figure otherwise than clothed in delicate lace or glistening silk and satin, and yet, as the girl insimple white muslin appeared in the forest-meadow, leaning upon the Prince’s arm, the name of the buried Countess resounded on all sides.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30.57A huge bedstead, the head and footboard clumsily painted with gaudy roses and carnations, and piled with feather-beds and patchwork quilts, stood directly in the broad light from the window, and upon this bed lay the castle miller.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15980.56"And our little good-for-nothing made these,—R<")schen’s chubby fingers completed them to-day," she said, with a light laugh, picking up and swinging to and fro a pair of large, coarse stockings.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_60.56In the warm atmosphere, behind the huge shop windows, elaborately curled and frizzed wax heads, surrounded by blond and black scalps, stared out upon the passers-by.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43550.56She noiselessly opened a little wider one of the doors, through which was visible a magnificent canopy of crimson velvet fringed with gold, beneath which the bridal pair were to stand in the evening.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51490.56To-morrow by daylight, beneath the magnifying- glass, we shall be able to admire the finely-cut head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44160.56Pearls, rubies, and golden coins always used to be scattered among her hair, but I had to hand them all over to the Herr Hofmarschall.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32920.56With the tips of his fingers he held up the rose-coloured paper to the duchess, smiling maliciously. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3310.56Just go up into the room with e red hangings where the old pictures are; look at e lady with the rubies in her coal-black hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8550.56She put on her wrap, tied a lace kerchicf over her head, and went up to say ‘good-bye’ to Joachim. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43150.56He was false, this handsome Tancred : his chestnut curls wreathed above his brow like ser- pents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17550.56It was covered with por- celain figures and a quantity of pretty articles, of the use of which I was utterly ignorant.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4380.56she cried, presenting a pretty little pistol, evidently manufactured from pasteboard and gold paper.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7990.56The baroness was dressed in dark silk, but with the greatest elegance, and made a most imposing appearance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36470.56"She has a bright red ribbon on her bonnet, and her mantilla is even more old-fashioned than Frau von Lehr’s.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24740.56His back was turned towards her; his head was uncovered save by masses of coarse, uncombed hair.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32670.56You seem to be perfectly at ease here," she exclaimed; "you really look quite at home, as if the keys to every drawer and closet were hanging at your girdle."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52440.561 knew where the shoe pinched.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_770.56Then it could not have been the cobweb gown.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64010.56Please lift the shade once for me."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_420.56No one who saw his stalwart old frame would have believed it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17210.56Pretty housekeeping !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6050.56She knew how to wear diamonds."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12820.56What gown are you wearing ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6570.56you know well enough that we have long since done with the jeweller.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26640.56"And your hat is left behind also," he said. '
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11960.56hat and gloves are gone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44690.56he said, as he set her down upon the grass outside.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12750.56"Yellow old parchment!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6180.56Small thanks, and such work as this.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32570.56She had on a dark dress.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52780.56Rich curtains hung at the windows; everything shone in newness and beauty,—the smooth floors, the elegant furniture, the frescoes, the chandeliers; even the kitchen was thoroughly fitted up, down to the commonest iron spoon.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_590.55It had pearls in its keeping, not in great numbers, it is true, and not pure enough to adorn a royal diadem or even a costly ring.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2900.55it was almost as straw-coloured as the dry locks on Heinz's temples ; and where the hair was parted there was always a little mist of frizzy curls.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17180.55Near one window stood a toilet-table covered with silver toilet articles ; except which and the chairs, there was no other furniture in the room.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8180.55she gasped, and her pretty blue eyes peeped compassionately beneath the broad brim of the man’s hat.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12540.55The plants at each of the high, broad windows decorated the room charmingly; there were various kinds of azaleas and palms, and magnificent india-rubber trees, just now tinged with gold by the sunshine that came broadly in through the net curtains.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34050.55From beneath my drooping eye- lids I only saw a small piece of polished parquetted floor at my feet ; the soft rustle of a silk dress fell on my ear; and, just as I was picturing to myself amid hardly-repressed tears of angry shame how like a clumsy, stupid, wooden image I was, I heard the lovely tones of a woman's gentle voice ; the Princess welcomed my father, and with a delicate finger touched my chin and lifted my face towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4800.5529 would have dropped their peacock-plume fans and stiff-leaved roses from their pale hands to clasp them in dismay, for there knelt Ulrika, the genuine Trachenberg, as the countess always called her, tearing off the moth-eaten covers from sofas and arm-chairs, and with her own noble hands hammering in the nails that fastened on the new flowered chintz.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1610.55THE girl had scarcely gone twenty steps when a short fat woman, in a brown round straw hat and a loose jacket, came from a side-path leading out into the road, walked up to the hurrying figure, and caught her by the apron. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27070.54Her mother tied around her neck a little locket attached to a very narrow black velvet ribbon, and this was her toilet, which would certainly have seemed most embarrassingly simple to most young girls going for the first time among a large assemblage of brilliantly-dressed people; but Elizabeth, if she thought of it at all, congratulated herself upon the delicate neatness of her muslin, and would rather not have worn her mother’s little ornament on this occasion, as she considered that she was to appear only as a musician and not as one of the guests, and that her fingers were all that she need be anxious about.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33980.54she said, with a gay laugh, as she stepped up to the mirror to set her hat more firmly upon her head and put up the curls which the damp air had untwisted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63120.54On the floor in the middle of the room was a pair of white satin slippers, evidently used alike for dressing-slippers and playthings for Blanche.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4280.54In Fraulein Streit's honour my grandmother had sent for a stuffed sofa from town, and Use had put up blue-and- white check curtains.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17240.54Be* side one of the beds upon a simple stand stood a large wicker-basket full of little cushions, over which a green veil was thrown.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22480.54Louise, a straw hat with blue ribbons crowning her fair braids, came in sight, followed by her stout and worthy mamma.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27190.54In the centre of the saloon stood the Baroness Lessen, arrayed in magnificent dark-blue moire-antique, and receiving the guests.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27090.54She had hitherto never worn a dress that did not cover her neck to her chin, and could not see why the fashionable world had decided that women should be _decolleté_ in large assemblies.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5410.54The doctor was standing so that only his profile was towards her; he wore a heavy moustache and beard, and yet she could see his lips close tightly, as if it were difficult for them to frame a reply.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_840.54Between her broad horns hung a garland of yellow buttercups and birch* leaves, she really wore this decoration as easily and majestically as if she had been born with it, a chain of dandelion-stalks hung around her neck, and a bouquet of moorland flowers dangled at the end of her tail.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_830.54A. tin kettle and a willow basket con- taining bread hung upon his right arm; a bunch of tallow candles dangled from one of the buttons of his coat in front, and the glass stopper of a flask of rum and the end of a plump paper package peeped from one of his breast pockets.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8870.54I, too, have a right to do so, and shall know how to maintain it ; and therefore I oould not wear this borrowed splendour' ' and she swept her hand across the rich folds of her skirt " to trail through my ancestral home, not one stone of which is now lawfully our own.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25630.54He did not bid me good-morn- ing ; his new, shiny hat was not lifted from his head ; but he measured me from head to foot with a look con- veying stern reproof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12950.54Therefore my respect for the beak-like shape of Use's bonnet was undiminished, but her head-covering certainly had suffered both in colour and gloss during its twenty years of seclusion in the band- box.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6030.54Titian hair is the fashion just THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3980.54He might easily have been pushed away, one would have thought, so slender and boyish did he look.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14400.54Again she stood before him, tall, slender, inapproachable.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_610.54The table-cloth with the marriage of Canb.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_5150.54The goldenhaired one may walk as well as the black-haired one."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4530.54lightly waved her white handkerchief. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55310.54You will certainly get me another decent-sized glass, that will be a little more like what I am accustomed to ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47690.54He cut but a sorry figure, my handsome Tancred.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45760.54279 that I shall appropriate at present/' And she slipped the ring into her pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37110.54Tell us about it, my child," she said, as she took off my hat and readjusted my dress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23050.54How be would have shaken his stiff and venerable queue !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3440.54It was the only relic that the widow had been able to retain of former splendour.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12750.54Have you put on your black silk apron ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21550.54There is a very imp of arrogance in them; they look down upon such as we as if We were dust under her feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20600.54Iwas always the same little round button that I am now; my Peter liked me as I was.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1910.54came abruptly from beneath the white kerchief. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33320.53The Hofmarschall was no whit abashed ; he was raging, as was plainly to be seen in the quiver of his pointed chin, and the way in which his white fingers clutched the crimson silk pocket-handkerchief lying upon his lap. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25610.53The old bookkeeper came out of his room ; he had his hymn-book under his arm, and was putting on a pair of small, Bew, lavender- coloured gloves, the old gentleman fairly shone with neatness and elegance.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5070.53Frau von Zweiflingen rolled and unrolled one of her long cap-strings in her thin, yellow wax-like fingers,—there was great nervous excitability in all her movements.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24120.53But the highway was free; nothing could hinder the Wagon, with its huge white linen cover and escorted by swarthy riders, from passing through those dark beechen shades out into the wide world.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21710.53After he had arranged the cushions at her back, and covered her little feet carefully with a shawl, he raised his hat to Elizabeth, who saw that the wrinkle between his eyebrows was not yet gone, and pushed the chair along the nearest path leading to the castle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46620.53It was the first time, perhaps, that the light of dawn had seen these splendid interiors; no shutter had been closed, no shade drawn down,—it even stared in upon the gorgeous bedroom in the northeastern angle of the building, upon the violet silk draperies, the richly-carved bedstead covered with lace, and it might mirror itself in the diamonds strewn among the puffs of the Frau President’s hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17630.53A princess had been sitting at this table and writing with the gold pen-handle so carelessly thrown aside I Her little feet had glided over the polished floor where I was now standing, and her delicate, re- fined face had looked out of those glass doors !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17420.53The black figure still stood upon the opposite threshold ; ehe slowly took down a, couple of brown hands from her face, and then tossed back a mass of dark elf-locks from her forehead, why, that was just what I was doing ray- self !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27510.53The faithful old cook-maid was once more installed in her kitchen, with sleeves rolled up and a dazzling white apron tied around her waist, her round red cheeks shining with good humour and content.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6390.53He would a thousand times rather that she should have squinted or have had coarse,_freckled features, ‘ the proud piece!’ She stroked back the loosened hair from her forehead to the back of her head, Where it Was gathered in a large unbraided knot confined by a comb; then, with a deep sigh, she folded her hands on her lap and leaned back against the wall of the house, apparently refreshed by the woodland repose reigning around her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45860.53None of all the good people of the capital had as yet seen the second wife ; she was known to be tall and red-haired and to these two qualities popular report added, as a necessary consequence, broad high shoulders, big feet, red hands, and a coarse skin.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3280.53Liana pointed to the worn and faded covering of the old 22 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9300.53A rusty key was sticking in the lock THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7660.53It was the youthful Isaac bound upon the sacri- ficial pile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7080.53** until each little beak should chip open the shell, and two new eyes look out upon the world.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63060.53Nothing more lovely could be imagined than that creature upon his blue satin cushion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30700.53I raised my skirt and let the light play upon my satin boot.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_40.53No one had bought or worn a scrap of mourning garb on her account.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26470.53He stood just behind her as she hurriedly picked up her skirts to wade through the water.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21820.53The kerchief has fallen from her head and she never notices it; there it lies in the road.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46940.53Will she drive in our beautiful carriage with the white damask cushions?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12880.53You want to buy some trinket or other, a feather, or ribbons for your hat, hey?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20620.53"I will paint your snowy skin so that you will remember me as long as you live.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15320.53Tell me, for heaven’s sake, why you always wear these frightfully heavy silks?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_180.52Thin shoulders covered with white linen, and a youthful, brown-tinted face, in- deed, what the water reflected was little and diminutive enough, but what matter, the two eyes in the water were quite indifferent as to whether they looked from among pure Grecian features or from a face of the Tartar type.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10810.52ignored, with an evident intention that was quite ridiculous, the title of ‘landlord.’ At his Words the delicate head of a Woman, with a transparent, emaciated old face and snow-white hair beneath a simple cap, was raised with a startled air from among the pillows. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4790.52It was well that the lordly figures in helm and breastplate, or with nodding plumes above their ruddy locks, were fastened to the walls of the portrait-gallery, neither they nor their haughty dames and daughters in Stuart collars and gold brocade could descend to the garden-room; assuredly thev THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5110.52With languid grace she extended her delicate hands from a cloud of rich lace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38310.52Her eyes glanced downwards at her dress, in fear lest the rustle of a fold should betray her presence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24750.52The crown-prince got upon a chair, took the horn from its nail, and examined its contents ; it was quite full.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20750.52The young wife, however, quietly laid the papers in the box and tried to fit the cover over it. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54100.52My father recoiled as if the claws of some monster had appeared from out of the beautiful woman's velvet cloak.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49600.52It is as if the writer had drawn on a steel glove to mask a delicately soft, little hand."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3310.52It was far pleasanter, with its velvet sod, for delicate feet than the stiff, stubbly heather.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29630.52I have a peculiarly sensitive Parisian skin, and you must dress according to your station, and there's an end of it!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19800.52"I must come, too 1" cried Charlotte, springing up and tossing the poodle into his cushion-lined basket. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13890.52My hat was no longer pulled firmly down upon my head, I threw it high into the air. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14330.52Frau von Herbeck put both hands to her lace-adorned head. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_900.52Our boy is growing taller and stouter, and his cap has not kept pace with him; so I consider the cap a necessary expense."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4510.52But the veil became loosened from the maiden’s head and floated away across the ditch to where my grandmother was standing.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12130.52"There," said Sabina, crowning Elizabeth’s head lightly with the forget-me-not wreath, which she had just completed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10480.52The shabby, threadbare coat, the shapeless hat, and the ragged light trousers,—Herr Markus had seen them all yesterday; and when the girl came out of the house with a piece of bread, the pallid face with the fine features and the full blond beard appeared from behind one door of the gate, the same that he himself had yesterday laid down among the soft pillows in the hospitable ‘ soldiers’ room’ at the manor-house.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3460.51Those carved cabinets and tables, those téte-a-tétes and arm-chairs, covered with apricot-coloured damask, stood a.gainst walls hung with ancient ragged leather hangings, the gilt arabesques of which had faded to a dull brown, looking all the more dingy in contrast with the shining frames of the mirror, that reached from floor to ceiling, and of a large portrait in oil.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2580.51Perhaps he was amazed at the audacity with which the child of the moor, in coarse linen and short woollen skirts, placed her- self beside him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5060.51He quietly opened a cupboard, and took from it an old, faded, red silk tablecover, which he hung before the window nearest to the invalid.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16600.51He seemed to have a kind of horror of a certain delicate table near the window, upon whose round top was a small mahogany case.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15310.51"In stiff silk, I see, as usual, just like a paper angel, and enough to make the strongest of us nervous with the perpetual rustle.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18780.51' His delicate forefinger, with its white crooked nail, pressed a spring, and the satin-lined cover sprang open.

Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_28300.96He wore as a head-dress a red pocket-handkerchief, which exposed two locks of light brown hair close to his temples; the two ends of his handkerchief formed a projecting rosette over his forehead; his cravat was a merino shawl, with a large pattern, which crossed over his chest; his mulberry-coloured waistcoat almost disappeared beneath the tight waistband of a very large pair of trousers of plaid, with very large and different-coloured checks.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_21240.95The delicate white of her neck and arms showed through her dress of black gauze; her dark brown, glossy hair braided back into wide plaited loops behind her small shell-like ear, and brought round the head in a sort of crown, against which lay her only ornament, a white camellia with its dark green leaves.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_94510.95He wore a very old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; and thick shoes with copper buckles.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_76420.94Her stature was taller, her limbs were fuller and more rounded; her complexion, though tanned by light, was fairer by far than his own sunburnt face; her hair, crowned with a garland of white flowers, was not lank, and straight, and black, like an Indian's, but of a rich, glossy brown, and curling richly and crisply from her very temples to her knees.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_111190.94She wore a blue and white-striped vest, with long open sleeves, trimmed with silver loops and buttons of pearls, and a sort of bodice, which, closing only from the centre to the waist, exhibited the whole of the ivory throat and upper part of the bosom; it was fastened with three magnificent diamond clasps.
Harris_Rutledge_54990.94Over my white tarletan ball-dress, I wore a domino of white silk, trimmed with heavy white fringe, and instead of the ordinary hideous black satin mask, a silver gauze before the upper part of my face, and a fall of white lace concealed my features entirely.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_191030.94This man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his face smeared with black.
Whitney_Real_Folks_6130.94Bonnet of shirred pink silk with moss rosebuds and a little pink lace veil; the pink muslin, full-skirted over two starched petticoats; even her pink belt had gay little borders of tiny buds and leaves, and her fan had a pink tassel.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_36960.94The tall one wore a plain linen coif on her head, a little grogram cloak over her shoulders, a grey kirtle, and a short farthingale or petticoat of bright red cloth, and feet and legs quite bare, though her arms were veiled in tight linen sleeves.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_77200.93These women, of about forty to fifty years of age, robust and masculine, were negligently and shabbily dressed, like chambermaids of the lower sort; over their clothes they wore large aprons of blue cotton, cut sloping from their necks, and reaching down to their feet.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_220.93His dress was well adapted for displaying his deep square chest and sinewy arms--a close-fitting jersey, and white trowsers girt by a broad black belt; the cap, orange velvet, fronted with a silver Maltese cross.
Evans_Vashti_56540.93Over her head she had thrown a white gauze scarf of fringed silk, which, slipping back, displayed the elaborate braids of hair wound around the head, where a crescent of snowy hyacinths partially encircled the glossy coil, and drooped upon her neck.
Evans_Infelice_1220.93She was dressed in blue muslin, the front of which was concealed by her white bib-apron, and her abundant glossy hair was brushed straight back from her brow, confined at the top of her head by a blue ribbon, and thence fell in shining waves below her waist.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_64820.93His was not a priestly robe; his black coat, and his waistcoat, tightly gathered in at the waist, set off to great advantage the elegance of his figure: his black cassimere pantaloons disguised his feet, exactly fitted with lace boots, brilliantly polished.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_124780.93The cap is of a pale red silk, with gold cord and embroidery down the seams, it being formed to fit the head, and therefore in compartments; broad where they are inserted into the rich fillet-band round the head, and narrowing to the closely-fitting top.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_7810.93In her silken skirt of silver gray, and the llama sack, violet lined, to need no tight corsage beneath, her fair wrists and arms showing white and cool in the wide drapery sleeves, she looked a very lovely lady.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_211430.93Adrienne wore a small white bonnet, with a fall of blonde, which well became her rosy face and golden hair; her high dress of garnet-colored velvet was almost hidden beneath a large green cashmere shawl.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_12490.93His new blouse, open on his chest, showed a red woollen shirt, closed by several silver buttons; whilst the collar of another shirt, of white cotton, fell over a black silk cravat, loosely tied around his neck.
Harland_Jessamine_8140.93She was dressed in black silk, with a jaunty velvet basquine, a scarlet scarf of Canton crêpe fastened upon the right shoulder with an antique cameo, and knotted under the left, the fringed ends falling low down upon her skirt.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_69150.93Her cap was embroidered with pearls, the pins in her hair were of gold and diamonds, her girdle was of Turkey silk, with large embroidered flowers, her bodice and skirt were of cashmere, her apron of Indian muslin, and the buttons of her corset were of jewels.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_69360.93Her cap was embroidered with pearls, the pins in her hair were of gold and diamonds, her girdle was of Turkey silk, with large embroidered flowers, her bodice and skirt were of cashmere, her apron of Indian muslin, and the buttons of her corset were of jewels.
Collins_The_Moonstone_11570.93He stood over six feet high; he had a beautiful red and white colour; a smooth round face, shaved as bare as your hand; and a head of lovely long flaxen hair, falling negligently over the poll of his neck.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_25090.93A large, loose waistcoat, of bright buff, with broad maroon-coloured stripes, black trousers, somewhat short for the wearer, snowy white stockings, and highly polished shoes completed his equipment.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_24050.93His body was belted by a band of gold, a collar of fine thread lace floated on his neck and shoulders, and even his feet were clad in a sort of buskins, that were ornamented with fringes of real lace and tassels of bullion.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_70420.92He wore a vest of garnet-colored velvet, with buttons of cut gold; a silk waistcoat covered with embroidery; a Roman scarf tied round his neck; a cartridge-box worked with gold, and red and green silk; sky-blue velvet breeches, fastened above the knee with diamond buckles; garters of deerskin, worked with a thousand arabesques, and a hat whereon hung ribbons of all colors; two watches hung from his girdle, and a splendid poniard was in his belt.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_70680.92He wore a vest of garnet-colored velvet, with buttons of cut gold; a silk waistcoat covered with embroidery; a Roman scarf tied round his neck; a cartridge-box worked with gold, and red and green silk; sky-blue velvet breeches, fastened above the knee with diamond buckles; garters of deerskin, worked with a thousand arabesques, and a hat whereon hung ribbons of all colors; two watches hung from his girdle, and a splendid poniard was in his belt.
Wister_Schillingscourt_5170.92She was dressed in gray silk, her golden cross sparkled upon her breast, and on her fair hair she wore a lace kerchief loosely tied beneath her chin, which made her face look even longer and thinner than it really was.
Harland_At_Last_17890.92She was below the medium of woman's stature, round and pliant in form and limbs; in complexion dark as a gypsy but with a clear skin that let the rise and fall of the blood beneath be marked as distinctly as in that of the fairest blonde.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_280770.92The Hindoo wore a long robe of white Cashmere, adorned with innumerable stripes of gold and purple; his turban was of the same color and material; a magnificent figured shawl was twisted about his waist.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_22920.92About fifty years of age, he wore an old, shabby, olive greatcoat, with a greasy collar, a snuff-powdered cotton handkerchief for a cravat, and waistcoat and trousers of threadbare black cloth.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_1950.92His eyes were large, and of a deep hazel, his nose aquiline, his chin rather projecting, his hair bright chestnut, of the same shade as his eyebrows, which were strongly arched, and his small moustache, which was fine and silky.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_1860.92Her gown, of brown stuff, though much too large, could not conceal a charming form, supple and round as a cane; a worn-out small orange-coloured shawl, with green fringe, was crossed over her bosom.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_18870.92A narrow velvet ribbon confined by a small brooch, and a black silk apron, completed her toilet, with the exception of a tiny locket, which was suspended from her neck by a slender gold chain.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_15980.91She had bare feet, in coarse calf-skin slippers, stringy petticoats differing only from the child's in length, sleeves rolled up to the shoulders, no neck garniture,--not a bit of anything white about her.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_106450.91She wore a black velvet bonnet of the most fashionable make, a large blue cashmere shawl, and a black satin dress, trimmed with sable, to match the fur of her muff.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_39110.91These women, all clad alike, wore black skull-caps and long loose gowns of blue woollen cloth, fastened around the waist by a band and iron buckle.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_19680.91She wore long sleeves, and drooping falls upon her wrists of the finest black lace; no white against her delicate throat, except that in front she had placed a small but really magnificent row of pearls.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_5110.91She wore a perfectly plain gown of dark-green cloth fitting her like a riding-habit, and her hair, which curled naturally, was combed back behind her ears and cut short.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_8010.91A broad-brimmed beaver hat, its silver band fastened with a jewel holding a plume of willowy feathers, completed his attire, which he wore with just the slightest of a jaunty air.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_64020.91Her long coal-black hair was soon adjusted in a simple knot, the calico dress belted tight to her slender waist, and her little feet concealed in their gaudily ornamented moccasins.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_10940.91The attire of this gentleman was composed of a many-folded white cravat, a close-buttoned blue dress-coat, and nankeen trousers with gaiters to match, ridiculous to the present generation.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_26080.91His well-fitting coat and long-flapped vest, garnished with the snowiest of lawn frills and ruffles; his knee-breeches, black silk hose, and shoes adorned with the largest and brightest of steel buckles, made up a costume, which, quaint as it would now appear, still is, to my mind, the most suitable and graceful that a young man can wear.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_13210.91She was herself already dressed--in a pale-blue satin, with full skirt and close-fitting, long-peaked boddice, fastened in front by several double clasps set with rubies; her shoulders were bare, and her sleeves looped up with large round star-like studs, set with diamonds, so that her arms also were bare to the elbows.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_16590.91His shirt of coarse yellow linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a shaved head and a long beard.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_30240.91Her health was so delicate that she wore a wrapping-dress of dark brown silk instead of one of those pretty little white muslin frocks trimmed with ribands of a similar colour as those in the hair, and well cut over the bosom to show the plump, pinky arms, and smooth, fair shoulders, so lovely in healthy children.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_30720.91They wore plain black cashmere dresses, plaited in at the waist, and belted to their pretty figures, over these, round, full aprons, tied behind with broad, hemmed bows.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_214810.91Her head was uncovered, and she wore a dress of sky-blue China crepe, ornamented at the bosom with a brooch of the finest Oriental pearls--nothing more; yet Adrienne, thus attired, was charming.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_48240.91The cap, which fitted tightly, was placed at the back of her head, and thus revealed two large and thick bandeaux of glossy hair, shining like jet, and falling very low in front.
Kingsley_Hypatia_7230.91Every swell of her bust and arms showed through the thin gauze robe, while her lower limbs were wrapped in a shawl of orange silk, embroidered with wreaths of shells and roses.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_168600.91He wore blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18780.89From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92010.87There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91990.86Even when within a very short distance of the manor-house, you could see nothing of it, so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16550.85A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79800.84(I have seen their grave; it formed part of the pavement of a huge churchyard surrounding the grim, soot-black old cathedral of an overgrown manufacturing town in -shire.)
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92060.83There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage -- no opening anywhere.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91840.83"At Ferndean, a manor-house on a farm he has, about thirty miles off: quite a desolate spot."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90160.83I had coasted along the lower wall of the orchard -- turned its angle: there was a gate just there, opening into the meadow, between two stone pillars crowned by stone balls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65990.82The population here must be thin, and I see no passengers on these roads: they stretch out east, west, north, and south -- white, broad, lonely; they are all cut in the moor, and the heather grows deep and wild to their very verge.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56490.81I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41560.81The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18760.77This lane inclined up-hill all the way to Hay; having reached the middle, I sat down on a stile which led thence into a field.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75700.76Both he and I had our backs towards the path leading up the field to the wicket.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67310.76In crossing a field, I saw the church spire before me: I hastened towards it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20890.76"And not even in Hay Lane, or the fields about it, could you find a trace of them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67320.75Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48210.74At the bottom was a sunk fence; its sole separation from lonely fields: a winding walk, bordered with laurels and terminating in a giant horse-chestnut, circled at the base by a seat, led down to the fence.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15810.74Again I looked out: we were passing a church; I saw its low broad tower against the sky, and its bell was tolling a quarter; I saw a narrow galaxy of lights too, on a hillside, marking a village or hamlet.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91910.72CHAPTER XXXVII The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68060.72I had, by cross-ways and by-paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12430.71Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood, and rising from the verge of a stream?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90170.70From behind one pillar I could peep round quietly at the full front of the mansion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90020.70With what feelings I welcomed single trees I knew, and familiar glimpses of meadow and hill between them!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48200.70No nook in the grounds more sheltered and more Eden-like; it was full of trees, it bloomed with flowers: a very high wall shut it out from the court, on one side; on the other, a beech avenue screened it from the lawn.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53290.69We were now outside Thornfield gates, and bowling lightly along the smooth road to Millcote, where the dust was well laid by the thunderstorm, and, where the low hedges and lofty timber trees on each side glistened green and rain-refreshed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92090.68There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68340.68I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees -- firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7830.67The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94700.66I sought a seat for him in a hidden and lovely spot, a dry stump of a tree; nor did I refuse to let him, when seated, place me on his knee.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92080.66Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90410.66The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a well-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys -- all had crashed in.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56500.66I wandered, on a moonlight night, through the grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth, and there over a fallen fragment of cornice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92020.66I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it would far and farther: no sign of habitation or grounds was visible.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7900.66I looked round the convent-like garden, and then up at the house -- a large building, half of which seemed grey and old, the other half quite new.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56720.66The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90360.66I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68390.66On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47410.66I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17690.66Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38490.65It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68360.64I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall -- above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68440.63In seeking the door, I turned an angle: there shot out the friendly gleam again, from the lozenged panes of a very small latticed window, within a foot of the ground, made still smaller by the growth of ivy or some other creeping plant, whose leaves clustered thick over the portion of the house wall in which it was set.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90220.62A peep, and then a long stare; and then a departure from my niche and a straying out into the meadow; and a sudden stop full in front of the great mansion, and a protracted, hardy gaze towards it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68330.60Having crossed the marsh, I saw a trace of white over the moor.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57910.60When I rallied, which I soon did, he walked gently with me up the path to the porch.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73810.60I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew-trees and holly-bushes in front.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92070.59I proceeded: at last my way opened, the trees thinned a little; presently I beheld a railing, then the house -- scarce, by this dim light, distinguishable from the trees; so dank and green were its decaying walls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47170.59I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants -- few was the number of relatives -- the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4470.59-- such, at least, appeared to me, at first sight, the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top was like a carved mask, placed above the shaft by way of capital.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92000.59Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35550.84Probably alarge portion of the hugely thick wall had fallen after the workmen had left the yard, for there was a great pile of rubbish lying there, and from among the broken edges of the part that was still standing, projected the sharp corner of a wooden 'chest——there was a crack in one side of it, and through this crack the yellow gold gleamed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26140.83Fclicitas had made almost the entire circuit of the little town, and now stopped before a garden-gate.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27060.81More and more slowly he walked up the broad gravel path that encircled the lawn.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6300.81Then came the ugly gate of the town flanked by the still uglier tower, but through the high arch of the gate the green fields beyond were lovely to behold, and the magnificent avenues of lindens that surrounded the town contrasted with its blackened walls like a green myrtle crown upon the gray brows of age.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6290.79Fclicitas turned into another street yet steeper than the one at the back of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7990.78The front of the house which looked upon the Square had been somewhat altered and modernized; but the back buildings, which consisted of three enormous wings, were yet standing precisely as the original architect had left them.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3150.77The house reared its stately front on the corner of the Square at the entrance of a steep ascending street.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27580.76"But you are sitting there like a lonely hermit under the chestnut-tree—how could I know where you were?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30330.75A lonely birch-tree was growing here—its smooth white trunk crowned by the falling branches, which made a kind of arbour around it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3140.73The most beautiful garden to be found outside the gates of the town, and the finest house upon_the market-square, had been in possession of the family for many generations.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8640.73Scarcely any of the wall within could be seen through the green of the climbing vines that were planted in large boxes around it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27350.70I saw a noble young fir-tree growing all alone upon a rocky clilf, it looked as if it had been wounded and made sore in the forest at its feet, and had fled to this loncl y height.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27080.70He reached above into the boughs of an apple-tree, bent down one of the branches, and looked with great interest at the growing fruit,—he could not have seen the girl beneath the chestnut-tree yet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8630.70Did the ivy grow through the roof then, and clothe the walls of the spacious room?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8580.70She stepped out of the window and reached the gutter at the bottom of the slope in a moment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8030.68Wherever a place could be found for it, the builder had carved in stone the crest of the original possessor of the mansion, a Lord of Ilirsehsprung (Stag’s leap).
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26770.66Through a gap in the cypress wall that stretched like a curtain before her, she had a full view of 'the garden-gate.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26070.66FELICITAS, after leaving the grave-yard, did not return directly to the house on the market-square.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22810.66Her gaze sought the shady arch above her, where the boughs were stretching boldly and powerfully forth in every direction.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8400.65There was indeed no view of the distant fields, which she had so longed for; four different sloping roofs formed a square before her eyes, and shut out any distant prospect; but the opposite roof of the four, which was much the highest, presented a spectacle to the wondering childish eyes, which transcended even the fairy tales in which she so delighted.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29800.63Instead of the slates of the roofs and the wooden floor of the gallery, she had beneath her feet the gravel of the sunny garden paths.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10550.61In the middle of the room two young firs were planted in huge tubs, and all around the walls was growing a perfect grove of plants, fresh and green, upon the boughs of which was perched a multitude of birds.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25800.60And now she had three graves in the large quiet grave-yard.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6150.60Crowds of worshippers thronged the narrcw street at the back of the Ilellwig mansion, on their way to the church on the hill.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4990.60She did not see the long black procession that followed the dead body like the last shadow at the end of life’s road.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14370.60And just opposite were the chestnuts,—thcir luxuriant young leaves not yet fully grown, hanging idly down, as though .
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14630.60But the sun lay hot and scorching upon the gravel path down which they slowly wandered, and instinctively they turned back to the stone-paved walk near the house, which was sheltered by the thick foliage of a group of acacias.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17110.59The little village whose outlying cottages were boldly climbing the mountain’s side lay hid in the shadow, but upon its high-pointed church spire the round ball gleamed brilliantly, as though played about by lightning, and the open doors of the houses revealed the red light of the tire on the hearths where the humble evening meal was preparing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6340.58She had never seen before these square lots, those grassy mounds with their _white head-stones.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41270.58In the large square of the court-yard the shadows of night were already falling.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28970.56e town of X— — to settle elsewhere To the direct descendants of this branch of the old noble Thuringian stock, I bequeath‘a.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8550.56She could climb like a squirrel.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12040.55The decoration had vanished—a heap of wreaths lay upon the floor, and several vases of flowers were ranged there close to the wall.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35540.54It was not the only one, and, in the masonry of the wall, there was a yellow glimmer.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29320.54He lived in the little street there at the side of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3680.53Behind the imposing cypress walls there was a wide extent of meadow and lawn,—gigantic chestnut-trees reared their trunks from tho flower-strewn grass, and a rippling brook intersected one part of the green plain,— its banks were fringed with alders and hazel bushes, and the thickly-sodded dam which had been thrown up for protection against the spring floods, was brilliant in May with yellow buttercups, while later in the season blueeyed grass twinkled up from beneath your feet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25970.52Had a branch been torn from the old Thuringian parent stem to take root in a distant country?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8560.51To walk down this sloping roof was an insignificant feat, and the gutters at the edges made quite a broad path for her, although they were slimy and mossy, and in the corners were crumbling away somewhat.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3660.49But one line morning, Heinrich, by his mastcr’s orders and to his own great delight, pulled up and cleared away the green parasites, until not the smallest vestige of them remained around the statues, and from that time Frau Hellwig, for her soul’s sake, and because the statues had witnessed her ignominious defeat, avoided visiting the garden.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41430.48FELICITAS had only passed through a few streets and crossed two thresholds, and yet what a change had these few steps effected in her outward and inward existencel The huge pile of the old house on the Square lay behind her, and with it she had cast off all traces of the unkindness which she had endured.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5070.48This, then, was ‘the old Mam’selle,’ the lonely tenant of the upper story of the back buildings of the mansion—a perpetual cause of discord to Frederika and Heinrich.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34890.48and I know how you would have levelled other barriers, and destroyed many a false worldly structure which had been carefully erected, if you had lived, just as you threw down the old planks behind which the little girl was teasing you.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5060.47Again she seemed to see the little old lady, whose bouquet was lying now neglected upon the stone pavement of the hall, perhaps trodden into pieces by careless feet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35530.47I was sitting upon the ruins dreaming of the time when these stones had first been heaped together, when, just at my feet, I saw a golden coin lying in the grass.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31670.47IIe disappeared behind the cypress-hedge, but Felicitas walked hurriedly along the whole length of the dam.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25550.47IIe who was at present wandering through the Thuringian forest with a brilliant party of friends, did not dream that his wonderful schemes——bascd upon narrow prejudices and false views of duty—would be made of no avail by two little feet tripping lightly along those tumble-down gutters on the edge of the roofs.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29750.46Perhaps they would take the evening meal in the garden to-day, and then the path over the roofs would be free.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25990.46Let him stand by this grave which covers a daughter of his house who had wandered hither from afar.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_330.45"My mistress thinks you must be lying stone-dead outside of the town."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12470.45It was she, stately and composed, although her eyes sought the ground.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10250.93In the centre of a not very spacious valley, nestled at the foot of an eminence whose summit was crowned by the royal castle and domain, it lay buried in the dark, rich green of avenues of lindens, and surrounded in spring by the lovely blossoms of countless orchards.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3130.92They walked up the mountain by a tolerably steep and narrow path through the thick forest, but this path gradually broadened, and at last led to a small open space, on one side of which arose what seemed like a tall gray rock.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9660.91Of the entire structure, once surrounded by a fosse, only a single tower—of considerable dimensions, however,—was left, flanked on one side by the blackened ruin of an ancient wing of the building.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6160.90It was a pretty new building of tiles, with large shining windows, and flanked by a white picket-fence that enclosed a strip of garden only two beds broad.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3170.90The forester led the way along the wall, at the base of which thick underbrush was growing, until he reached a large oaken door with an iron grating in the upper half of it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12110.90Its exterior was not imposing, to be sure; it had only one row of windows, directly above which arose the roof with its gilded weather-cock and massive chimneys, one of which was actually smoking,—an incredible sight.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21340.89These orchards, more grateful to the palate than to the eye, extended into the woods that skirted the lawn ; of course they did not penetrate the grand old forest, which, in its interior, admitted of but one road through its ancient and mighty growth, but there were several carefully-kept paths leading to an opening beneath one of the first groups of maples.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17250.89In the picture vines were wreathed about the pillars of this veranda, and instead of the forlorn farm-yard there was a green lawn in front of the house, planted with acacias.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5150.89Without, beyond the outer wall, the forest retreated like side-scenes on either side, opening a full view of a distant valley that was to Elizabeth a perfect paradise.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2400.89Beyond the balustrade of the terrace there was a wide stretch of lawn intersected by gravelled paths, with white marble groups at the points of intersection.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24670.89About midway upon the path leading from the village to the forest Lodge, a much narrower path branched off, and ascended the mountain to Castle Gnadeck.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5180.88And then the grand, solemn mountain domes seemed to approach, their granite peaks, sometimes crowned by a solitary fir, breaking through the forest here and there.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33740.88The workmen were standing just where the huge jutty sprang forth from the main building, and they pointed down to a tolerably large opening at their feet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30810.88The old house was buried in the depths of the forest ; there was no extended view in any direction, although, perhaps, from the dim little window in the gable, or the dovecot on the roof, a glimpse might be had of mountain-peaks, or even of a bit of the mosaic roof of Castle Schbnwerth.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9410.88beds of vegetables in the corner of the garden, and joining the wall of the house on the right was a hedge, or rather a thick growth of raspberry-bushes, separating the garden from the farm-yard,—the spot of ground over which the rails were to be laid.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25890.87The spot of ground belonging to it was small, consisting of a little flower- garden in front and a diminutive lawn in the rear, over- shadowed by the impenetrable boughs of a magnificent horse-chestnut, the only tree within the bounds of the small domain, which was separated only by a broad highway from the wall inclosing the Claudius estate.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_200.87In the loftier portions of the Thuringian forest the grain is never very flourishing, meadow-grass and potatoes are the principal crops.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6690.87Then the road ran through a thick grove of giant forest-trees, with here and there an opening so contrived as to give glimpses of a sunny land- scape beyond, set like a gem in the dark masses of foliage.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9710.87Its base was encircled by a wilderness of woodland shrubs and plants, hedge-roses and blackberry-vines crept in and out of the huge window-arches in the ruin and nestled among its fragments, while the wild hop clambered everywhere, covering the grim dark stones with a wealth of greenery.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14950.8693 Adorned with white statues and stiff pyramids of yew, filled all the open space in front, which was surrounded by a broad, gravelled road, across which a deep woodland shade was thrown.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9750.86At the farthest end of the long dim forest aisle, for it was a very narrow path which led from the Lodge to the village of Lindhof, a little point of light indicated the meadow, in the middle of which stood the old house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28900.86The convent tower,—the only uninjured remnant of a former nunnery,—was situated in the depths of a grove of oaks and beeches in a part of the forest domain appertaining to the Lindhof estate, which here extended far towards the east.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11780.86Its large window afforded her pictu- resque views of the garden and the lofty wooded hills.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9240.86On the southern side was a grassy garden, and the picket-gate in its hawthorn hedge opened upon the grove.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12040.86She left behind her the pretty grounds around the ruin, and walked along the unfrequented path through the meadows upon the banks of the stream.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30790.86In one corner of the fence stood a wooden bench overshadowed by a lofty pear-tree, the trunk of which was all wt eathed and hung with a luxuriant wild hop-vine.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9930.85The grated gate swung to behind her, and Liana was walk- ing upon the light gravel of a narrow pathway, still over- shadowed by boughs of familiar hazel- and juniper- busheo.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10780.85It was the remains of a colonnade which had once connected the tower with the castle, and two finely-vaulted arches, resting upon slender pillars, now formed a kind of balcony whence there was a magnificent view.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3440.85She turned aside and ran along the path below the terrace, across the drive before the western front of the castle, and so out into the fields beyond.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13670.85It was formed by the principal house, two long side wings at right angles to it, and a wall at the back.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5210.85In front lay Castle Lindhof, surrounded by a park laid out in princely style.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3980.85The floor was of red tiles, and the panels on walls and ceiling were covered with beautiful carving.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3560.85Certainly, the rank growth around the base of the walls would have obscured all trace of steps or door, even were there any such entrance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3160.85They could see nothing of any buildings that might be behind it, because the surrounding forest was too thick and close to allow of a sufficiently distant point of observation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17110.85Close beside them a curious jutty projected far into the garden, forming a deep corner, where grew a giant oak, which stretched some of its boughs through the two nearest sashless windows far into the airy, cool apartment within, which must once have been the chapel of the castle, intended to accommodate a large number of worshippers, for it extended through the entire depth of the wing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9280.84He passed an arbour,—a shady arbour constructed of the twisted and trained boughs of a linden, and containing a table of stone and two roughly-made wooden seats.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7070.83Woods, nothing but green woods, in that direction, except where the broad road cleft the foliage.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1250.83And so part of the building connecting the two principal wings of the old castle was somewhat repaired and furnished.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7000.83One more winding through dark, ancient elders, and the carriage entered upon a broad gravelled road, and stopped before the lofty portals of the castle of Schbnwerth.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24260.83On the right lay -the forest-covered valley; but on the left there was the narrow strip of meadow-land nestling against the mountain-side and containing the keeper’s lodge.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_300.82The handsomest briadle cow that ever crossed a moor, she was standing quietly beneath the birch-tree, and cropping tha rich grass that grew in a narrow strip along the bank of the pool.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1130.82Through the arched gate-Way of the principal entrance there came noisily rattling into the court-yard a pretty little vehicle drawn by a pair of goats.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36930.82I trod upon gravel; winding paths led through the dark shrubbery, between masses of rock, here and there traversing soft, velvety turf.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9230.82The farm-house stood with its back to the edge of the pine-grove; it was one-storied, not very large, and so old and ruinous that it seemed as though mould and decay must soon devour it entirely.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5160.82"There is Lindhof," said the forester, pointing to a large building in the Italian style, which lay tolerably near to the foot of the mountain upon which Gnadeck stood.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13970.81We reached a stream spanned by a pretty iron bridge ; it formed the boundary of tbe large flower-garden ; the opposite bank was clothed with luxuriant shrubbery, which, where it parted, showed glimpses of shady velvet lawn planted with groups of trees, and intersected by well-kept gravel-walks.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_930.81They were passing a spot where the foliage divided and there was a view of the lake and the little village.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8140.81The grass was freshly mown on the broad meadow before the manor-house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2280.81"Why, you are in the midst of Hirschwinkel, and have been walking for full half a league upon your own land.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3520.81Here were also the same signs of decay,—tolerably well preserved outer walls,—complete ruin within.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19560.81Sabina pointed through the fence to the pear tree in the court-yard.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9650.81Near the western boundary of the park stood the remains of the former Castle Baumgarten.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1550.81He turned into the broad linden avenue that led directly to the villa.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12170.81Scarcely knowing why, she crossed the bridge and passed ground three sides of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1390.81Around lay scattered the broom that had been torn out by the roots, and where it had grown there gaped a large open- ing, from the upper part of which there hung down, out of the miserable mixture of clay and sandy soil, thick roots, the offshoots of the fir, the white scars showing that they had been cruelly hacked by the pickaxe.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6670.81Where the low hedge of the yard made a sharp angle upon the moor she would sometimes stand for hours, gazing out into the illimitable distance. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3600.81Remnants of galleries, worm-eaten joists, and various fragments of frescoed ceiling were heaped up in piles, over which the explorers had to scramble as best they might.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20240.81Some spreading lindens cast their green shade upon the rich grassy soil, only intersected here and there by narrow paved paths.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17100.81Three large, pointed, arched windows, faultless in shape, extended upward to the height of the second story from about six feet from the ground.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6970.81There is a pretty old house there,—once a dependency of the castle,—embowered in grape-vines, with a broad flight of stone steps before the door.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2360.80The manor-house was a perfectly unpretending edifice, an old house with a high-pointed roof, the gable-end well protected on the weather-side by a covering of tiles.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55340.80The winding paths were freshly gravelled, the old creaking wooden gate had been replaced by one of wrought iron; the Frau Dean’s arbour had been freshly painted, and behind the house a high picket-fence enclosed a new poultry-yard.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30780.79A broad path, bounded by a low picket-fence, led through the little front garden directly to the house-door, usually stand- ing hospitably open, affording a glimpse of the sanded floor inside.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3460.79The space upon which she entered had probably been the former flower-garden, but such a name could scarcely be applied to the tangled wilderness of green, where not even the narrowest vestige of a path could be discerned, and where here and there only the mutilated remains of a statue appeared among the mass of shrubs, bushes, and parasitical plants.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2620.79The road now made a gradual turn to the right, which brought slowly into view the island of garden ‘ and meadow, with its green-wreathed ruins in the midst of the woodland shades.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2300.79The garden was large, climbing a short distance up the mountain side by terraces, and even enclosing within its realm a beautiful group of old beeches, outlying members of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7080.79There in distant perspective like a little framed picture could be seen the N euhaus mansion, its many-windowed facade standing out among its circle of lindens.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2360.79And he who sat beside her need not live in a hired dwelling; he would still be upon Gerold soil, even though it were only a woodland nook on the extreme border of the former estate.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7180.79But she could not cross the open meadow, she must skirt it in the obscurity of the forest to reach the Greinsfeld path that lay opposite.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24060.79The road that led past the farm ran thence into the fields, or rather it became a narrow footpath intersecting the Count’s forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6010.79The gloomy door which led into the huge old wing Had been walled up and gave no sign that such a dreary waste lay beyond it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44380.79With looks full of gloom, Elizabeth once more walked to the corner of the balustrade looking towards Castle Lindhof, and stood gazing in that direction.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35850.79It was situated in the forest, at a considerable distance from the villa, but from its upper windows there was a good view of the road and the town.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2450.79The lofty southern portal of the former convent chapel soon came in sight.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66870.79But the door was closed, and the carriage turned to the strip of woodland again.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1410.79They shovelled away the earth, and a huge rough block of stone appeared.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17780.79He passed through a long lonely passage, and went out into the court-yard.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28920.79He kept beside her; the forest corner lay behind them, the farm-garden came into view. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3150.79They were standing before a lofty wall, which looked like one solid block of granite.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9700.79It crowned an artificial mound covered with mossy turf.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3790.79She turned into the broad road leading to the castle mill.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19260.79The looms were deserted: there was not a workman occupied inside the factory.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13440.78The floor beneath our feet was a mosaic of polished marble ; the broad, winding staircase in tho background was of marble, as well as the two huge pil- lars that formed an arch overhead in the midst of the hall.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_520.78The huge forest trees which were growing before it spread abroad their mighty branches, and drooped them among the thick brushwood at their feet, so that the deserted castle lay behind the green impenetrable wall like a coffined mummy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_650.77Just as the carriage was turning into the drive upon the shore of the lake, a pedestrian emerged from the shadow of a group of trees.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26610.77From my rocky seat I could see a tolerable distance along the winding path leading to the Karol in en- lust.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26220.77I softly descended from my post of observation, and walked ulong the wall until I discovered a gate upon the road.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26150.77There was up there, only a short distance off, as he knew, a little hut, a shelter for the Woodmen, half concealed in the thicket beneath the firs.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14500.77Here, too, everything was as quiet and lonely as in the garden through which he passed, and as throughout the fields belonging to the farm which he could overlook across the hawthorn hedge.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12180.77And then she hastened through the house and garden, and was soon outside the gate, which she closed behind her, and flew along up the narrow moonlit forest path.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25880.77On the hither side, between the stream and the edge of the forest, lay a succession of pleasant villas, surrounded by gardens charmingly laid out ; on my left, so near that I could easily see every object in the second Btory, was a pretty Swiss cottage.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55330.77The men were still at work in the garden, but the evergreens that had overgrown the land belonging to the house, forming here and there an impenetrable thicket, had been thinned and left only within the boundaries first assigned them, while from among their dark foliage gleamed the new statues.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4000.77Here the syringas and hazel bushes were growing everywhere, making an absolute thicket, through which, however, the three men penetrated, and reached a little gate in the outside wall which communicated with the forest without.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31290.77Then, descending into the garden, she looked beyond the low picket-fence into the blue distance, beyond the meadows, beyond the river rolling through them, beyond the cottage-roofs and the church-spire.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4950.77At each end of the long, grassy embankment, broad, worn, stone steps led up to a low breastwork, over which one could look out into the forest, and there, where the trees were somewhat thin, through a green vista down into the valley, where the forest lodge, with the white doves dotting its blue-slated roof, was nestling cosily.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29020.76Immense iron clamps bound the walls together at the corners, and numberless lines of fresh mortar meandered across its blackened surface, so that the old building looked at a distance like a gigantic piece of agate.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21030.76The danger was past: there were men ploughing within calling distance, the steeples of the city were in view, and directly in front lay the road leading to the gates of the park of Villa Baumgarten.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2440.76from the chinks in the marble pavement of the terrace was sprouting a positively thick growth of weeds ; and the outlines of the paths inter- secting what should have been a smoothly-shaven lawn were irregular with rank grasses, while the broad pathway of the B 2* 18 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1650.76you need the rod," as he glanced shyly towards the front of the opposite ‘ warehouse.’ The outer wooden gallery which projected before the casement windows of the upper story of this ancient house was shaded by the interwoven branches of the tall syringas, which left space only here and there for air and light, as they screened it and arched above it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21790.76Just beneath the crest a small spot is discernible.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38980.76They turned into a path that passed very near my hiding-place.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3820.76I ascended the hillock and buried it be- neath the fir.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36280.76The conservatory lay at some distance from the principal path.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17730.76Perhaps there was a glimpse of the country to be had from this balcony through some gap in the trees.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1070.76This road leads directly to the manorhouse of Hirschwinkel ?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6960.76"It leads to the fields on the other side——" "Yes, to the orchard and meadows.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54780.76Now the wall had gone, and the pretty path was planted with acacias.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_430.75There he stood, Heinz, the Imker,* upon feet so huge and massive that their tread seemed to shake the ground.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25810.75I went towards the spot whence the sound proceeded, and came to a wall, the boundary of the forest ; the space behind it was clear of trees.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4630.75Only once was it interrupted on its way by a small by-path to the right, which led behind a small pine-grove directly to the farm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24270.75The road wound along at a little distance, and farther on the red-tiled roof of the lonely house came into view.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18050.75The corner was the entrance to a narrow forest-path which led directly to the foot of the mountain.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2480.75Not a stone had fallen away from the ruined church for years, and the remaining wing had been converted into a habitable refuge,—the dowcr-house of the old Frau.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2010.75In ancient times the estates lying in the spacious Paulinenthal and the ‘ huge forests climbing thence up the mountain-sides had all been united under one rule.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1440.75But you will have to pass by the old castle if you wish to find us, and knock at some modest peasant hut in the valley, for the ruined old pile will scarcely afford us an asylum."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54770.75Formerly the high massive wall enclosing the mill-grounds had cast its shade so far that the footpath beneath it was almost always damp and had long been avoided.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12100.75It was situated in a very retired spot on the banks of the river, and the leafy grove behind it, on the other side of the fence, gave it the character of a woodland cottage.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54790.75The cottages looked neat and trim, with their air of Dutch cleanliness, the pretty porch in front of each, and the small gardens which had been planted the previous autumn with all kinds of flowering shrubs.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_80.74There was nothing to suggest the thick-set East Fries- land fisherman, and it was well that the huge park, with its wide stretches of forest, entirely concealed the little capital beyond it ; everything seemed rustic and rural, until one of the low cottage doors opened.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12080.74The councillor had spoken truly; the low picket fence that enclosed the garden was in perfect repair, and everything about the house, from the old tiled roof to the latticed arbour for the grapevines, was in thorough order.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3280.73Even the stone steps seemed half hanging in the air,—some mossy fragments had already become detached from them, and had rolled into the centre of the court-yard.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54960.73The doctor’s house was now reached by a stone bridge, crossing the river near the factory, and a pretty footpath along the opposite shore.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44410.73He was standing on the topmost of three or four steps, and the view obtained thence of a considerable portion of his beautiful domain apparently delayed his descent.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48030.73Beside the motionless waters of the little lake in the ducal park the majestic lindens formed one heavy mass of foliage, in the shade of which the fishing-village had vanished so completely that it seemed us if some giant hand had plunged the little toy be- neath the waters of the lake.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54750.73Those who now turned aside into the by-road leading to the mill found upon their right a row of pretty little cottages, that belonged to the workmen in the factory, and had been erected upon the waste portion of the mill-garden,—the strip of land that Kitty had begged of her guardian for the convenience of these men.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35820.73Large additions were building, making long stretches of road through the park almost impassable, heaped up as they were with blocks of granite and marble to be used in these additions and in the new stables, the old ones, although spacious and convenient, having long been too small for the councillor’s passion for fine horses.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21370.73125 werth forest-house, that lay hidden in the lonely recesses of the wood.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25900.73Schafer, the old gardener, was walking to and fro beneath the overhanging balcony of the cottage.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25360.73Although I had wandered fearlessly upon the spacious moor, I could not bring myself to explore these woodland depths.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18520.73At sight of these she turned and ran through the garden, vanishing swiftly behind the raspberry hedge.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3200.73The explorers entered and found themselves in a court-yard bounded on three sides by buildings.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6550.73She pointed towards an extensive ditch, where a large number of labourers heads were seen just above-ground.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56580.73"—he pointed through the window to the spire of the neighbouring village church,—"I always had such an affection for that place."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32130.73Now she knew that it had once been the base of a statue; the remains of a delicate little naked foot were still to be seen upon its mossy surface.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1960.72The light parasol of the ‘barbarous creature’ emerged once more into the sunshine from the shrubbery on the side of the road, and then‘ vanished behind the beech-trees on the outskirts of the strip of woodland that marked the boundary of the estate of Geroldscourt.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2370.72It had once been whitewashed, and its monotonous front facade was relieved only by a two-storied bow-window, hung so thick from foundation to eaves with forest-ivy that the windows in its three sides looked like mediaeval loop-holes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2360.72There lay the Dierkhof, its firm, solid roof, adorned with moorland greenery from beneath each row of tiles, arose in the midst of four majestic oaks.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4620.72Whenever he looked up, his gaze overlooked through its panes the road that, passing the manor-house, cut through the fields in a straight line to be received at some distance by the opening forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4890.72As Elizabeth entered the large gate of the castle, which stood wide open, a huge green mound, piled up by the fountain, met her eye.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20020.72The first time that he did so, Elizabeth discovered him from one of the hall windows that commanded an extensive view of the park, standing waiting at the entrance of the forest-path, by which she must pass.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54300.72The lindens of the avenue retreated; the heavens stretched broadly above, and standing clear against their sparkling depths were the two slim poplars that flanked the wooden bridge.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_450.71There, on the right, the river, after turning the wheels of the castle mill, made a sudden bend; a frame-work of boughs on that side enclosed a strip of its shining course, and a structure the purposes of which it was made to serve, a huge, square, unornamented stone building, with rows of windows enhancing its naked ugliness.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33940.71The in- exorable Eastern journey will be your ruin."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10060.71And now the white walls of a low cottage appeared.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26280.71I ran across the road to the low fence.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14840.71Use strode on boldly, never turning round.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22060.71After along ramble in the forest he had found himself—quite against his will, of course—on the old track.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45910.71The path branched aside to the well-known bank in the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45260.71He has already left Lindhof, and will never cross your path again.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29000.71Here there was a magnificent prospect and distant view of L——.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28980.71The tower was square, clumsy, and ugly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25110.71As she was slowly descending the mountain she saw all that Elizabeth had seen.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17230.71It must be taken away, for it makes a part of the garden inaccessible to us.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8460.71It fell upon the pavement in the mill-yard."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45470.71Those builders of old must have cemented their walls with iron.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3890.71It is true that to me it had consisted of a large, dark, back room and a damp garden, surrounded by four high houses.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43800.71And there towered the mountain crowned by the ruin of Gnadeck; but the forest hid from her her dear home, she could not even see the lofty flagstaff.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1910.71After a short drive the wood grew less dense, and soon the retired Lodge appeared in the midst of a meadow in the heart of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11670.71It is so large that Franz is obliged to leave all that portion bordering on the high-road uncultivated, for want of time and labourers.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3230.71In the centre of the court-yard a group of old chestnut trees stretched their aged boughs above a huge basin, in the midst of which couched four stone lions with wide open jaws.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1990.70Gigantic old lindens wove a green net-work above court-yard and mansion,—the front of the house alone was unshaded,—and about the beautiful dove-cot in the centre of the spacious lawn the breath of spring and the golden sunlight played freely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60.70In the far distance, the sandy level that produces only the hardy heather rises to a tolerable height; here there is gtrength and nourishment in the soil ; the long, dark strips in which tne pmpie plain suddenly ends are woodland,* a lofty, majestic forest.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2900.70At the end of the village, he left the road which led out through the valley into the wide world, and turned into one of those neglected forest-paths, which are perfect marshes after any softening rain, and in frosty, dry Weather, full of break-neck ruts and holes.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2280.70Ah, yes, there above the forest rose the dark gray shaft of the tower.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7940.70She runs about the moor with her little naked feet, and sings upon the mound yonder.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3300.70Heinz was pointing out to them the strip of turf that bor- dered the brook.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44710.70She entered the path which led directly to Castle Lindhof,—it was the shortest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40010.70He walked on quickly, and turned into the path that led up the mountain to Gnadeck.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18020.70They had already reached one of the gravelled paths leading through the park, and it was time to take leave of each other.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3510.70The garden was surrounded upon three sides by buildings; the square was completed by a high, green wall, which had been constructed of earth, like a dam, and above which the trees of the forest waved a greeting to their neighbours within.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20230.70The windows of Miss Mertens’ room looked out upon a large court-yard, which Elizabeth used to call the convent garden,—it lay so retired and quiet, encircled by its four high walls.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50.69On the left bank of the lake there was a little fishing-village, eight scattered cottages, so low that their straw-thatched roofs scarcely touched the low-hanging boughs of the lindens cen- turies old that overshadowed them.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33860.69It lay so close to the chapel that Reinhard’s supposition that in old Catholic times the church treasures had been secreted here seemed most probable; all the more so as on one side five or six worn stone steps led down to a door in the chapel wall, which had been walled up from within.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26840.69With an air of unspeakable contempt her gaze rested upon the old house, marking the red tiled floor and bare walls of the hall, and the entire exterior of the dwelling, as if to make of the whole a complete picture in her mind.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25860.69At my right lay the steepled city, flanked by ornamental roads, then the stream, the same that traversed the Claudius estate.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31020.69A considerable portion of the pine-grove was cleared, the out- buildings were torn down, and stones were brought for the new house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5010.69And what a pleasure it must be to creep under the flower-laden boughs and sit there in the green, just like grown-up people in an arbour!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33770.69But now a space suddenly appeared at their feet surrounded by firm walls, and covered by a tolerably well-preserved ceiling.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31690.69On the other side of this broad path opened the wide road which led through the forest to her uncle’s Lodge.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9680.68Its possessor at that time, residing most of the year in foreign parts, had erected "Villa Baumgarten" on the opposite side of the estate, near the frequented road, in order that when in his own country he might "live among his kind," and the grandly-hewn blocks of granite from the old castle had been used in building the modern villa.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_450.68Green shrubbery flourishing on the spot where formerly busy trade did not allow even a blade of grass to grow between the firmly-set paving-stones!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7110.68It was dark and lonely as the grave by the quarry; the small birds even would not see her as she fled past them to her home, for they were all sleeping in their nests or in the rocky clefts.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3310.68Through a deep, dark portal they entered another court-yard, which, although much larger than the first, by its striking irregularity produced an impression of far greater desolation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1250.68Ab be spoke, they emerged from the forest upon the open space where the carriages were standing, and, avoiding the crowd and press, turned into the narrow path upon the lake-shore. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10020.68The Hindoo temple raised to Jbhe skies its gleaming dome as firmly as if its steps led directly to the waters of the Ganges, instead of to a pond in a German valley.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2910.68Opposite the southern portal of the ruined church, and on a line with the present dwelling-house, although at some small distance from it, stood the bell-tower of the convent church.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1970.68On the farther side of this strip, among the mountains, there was another manor-house, an unornamented modern structure, with walls painted a light color, and white, rolling blinds.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36060.68I hoped she might have seen me, but all that part of the house was dark except the window of the hall, where a superb old-fashioned lamp hung from the centre and illumined the lofty marble arches that spanned it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6110.68-In preference to the trodden paths, he made a way for himself through the luxuriant underbrush, beneath the canopy of leafy green; and as he parted the boughs with his arms the powerful odour of woodland earth impregnated the air.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35800.67A spot beneath the beautiful lindens in our village church-yard seems to me infinitely preferable to those three gloomy walls, within which the mother of our line has lain for so long; and that the ’dark, cold ground’ may not touch her coffin, let us have a grave built in the earth and closed with a tombstone."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7010.66A dwarf southernwood tree that, sheltered by the wall against which it grew; was yearly laden, to the delight of the birds, with store of crimson berries, extended its boughs across the panes; and behind its leafy screen I sat securely hidden, and could look beyond garden and meadow into the distance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3330.66An old elder bush, leading a straggling existence in one corner, with its leaves covered with fallen crumbs of mortar, and some dry grasses between the stones of the pavement, made the scene yet more desolate.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24700.66She had never encountered a human being here, but to-day she had not penetrated far into the green twilight before she observed, about twenty paces in front of her, towards the right, just by the trunk of an enormous beech tree, something like an arm slowly projected and then dropped.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44080.66From the distant east, where the forest almost in its primeval luxuriance descended into the valley and then again climbed an opposing range of mountains, a faint shot was occasionally heard.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2210.66Green meadows bordered it on either side, and at a short distance opposite the forest parted wide to receive it; tall.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43010.66And in the distance, among the groups of majestic trees, appeared the imposing façade of the new stables; their erection also had been so swift as to seem almost the work of magic.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40030.66He had just increased the precious stock, and it was all ranged carefully in the huge vaults that burrowed deep into the hill on all sides of the tower.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21050.66She could see distinctly the picket-fence of the garden,—it was much nearer at hand than the park gates,—and thither, after a brief rest, she silently directed her steps.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12620.66On the other side of the water lay one of the finest parts of the park, and in the distance, behind the lindens, the blue tiles of the roof of the villa could be seen.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4340.66But in spite of the weather hundreds of people lined the street leading to the railway-station.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2530.66He watched over every stone in the walls that threatened to crumble,—over every weed that sprang up in forest or meadow. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33880.66We had left the house upon the street, and were walk- ing through the dusty, ugly city, that I had hoped never to see again.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1200.66The larger mound was crowned with juniper-bushes, and its sides clothed with yellow broom.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4530.66He had discovered for himself a very favourite retreat in Hirschwinkel; this was the little pavilion on the northwestern corner of the garden-wall.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2220.66beeches, like the trees of an avenue, cast their shadows here and there across a path that led sharply to the left. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5200.66A little river, a highway bordered by poplars, and several gay villages enlivened the background of the valley.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43040.66Passing on beneath the shady arches of the linden avenue, Kitty approached the villa.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3780.66It was March, and a young girl was walking from town upon the highway, here and there bordered by neat cottages.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19240.66Meanwhile, Kitty was standing at the window, whence she had a full view of the huge factory, with its still unfinished additions.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17180.66he asked, coldly, pointing to one of the banana palms in the Indian garden. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23620.66Use, meanwhile, had ascended the staircase after us, reproaching me for leaving her behind when she had gone to see the devastation in the garden. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12460.66And a new house could be built much more quickly and easily here than there by the Water-side.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47640.66* * * * * Let us pass over a space of two years, and once more enter the old Gnadeck ruins.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44700.66"I will not have you dashed to pieces upon the stone pavement of that dreary tower."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20420.66Just across the large meadow which bordered upon the forest was a charming pavilion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9690.66The tower, with the ruin adjoining it, had been spared as an ornament to the park.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32240.66The garden must once have been adorned with these figures: there are several pedestals still standing in the shrubbery.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6740.65I had arisen and was standing at her side. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18750.65us, although we walked directly behind them, on the broad .
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31010.65The farm swarmed with labourers.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29650.65How could we know that she had taken shelter in the forest lodge?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2230.65Does Hirschwinkel lie in that direction?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15460.65He pointed to the forest lodge. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43690.65She never once turned round towards the tower.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37820.65He had asked her to tread a thorny path with him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17650.65They had nearly reached the borders of the park.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12630.65"Over at Lindhof, in a potato-field.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42930.65there stretched the beautiful lake.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40250.65She stood as if rooted to the spot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24190.65He turned away and walked to the nearest window.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3760.64The block of granite had been replaced and the earth roughly smoothed around it ; the fragments of the urn had vanished ; the torn bushes were lying about withering on the spot of bare sand at the foot of the hill ; some of the ashes from the urn were sprinkled around, and from beneath a twig of broom peeped a small charred bone, forever separated from its fellows that had, doubtless, been again consigned to the grave.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29410.64They were standing not far from the lindenarbour, and it was so quiet throughout the garden and beneath its green arch that each single drop of water that fell from the boughs above upon the stone surface of the table there could be distinctly heard.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47750.64We wind among the gravel paths that intersect the lawn, delight our eyes with the groups of shrubbery, still very young, that are so tastefully scattered here and there, and with the gay beds of carefully tended flowers.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47660.64We remember with a shiver the cold, damp court-yard behind this gate, shut in by gloomy colonnades on three sides, while the crumbling buildings threatened to bury us beneath their ruins.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21040.64But Kitty’s eyes were fixed upon an object which Flora did not see,—the low roof, with the tall chimneys and gilded weathercock, that lay so peacefully amid its surrounding fruit-trees.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14830.64There was the huge whitewashed hall of the castle mill, and from its wall looked down in ghostly dimness out of the worm-eaten black frame the figure, in full armour, of its knightly builder.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17460.64It extended the entire depth of the house, and in the walls fronting south and north there were three tall glass doors leading out into the open air.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5630.64The railway, however, was to go directly through the farm-yard, and so near the southern corner of the house that the rotten old edifice would surely crumble to dust in a few years.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42870.64She passed by the castle, along the broad gravel-walk, and entered the little forest-path leading to the convent tower, without knowing whither she was going, or remembering that every step took her farther from her home.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_230.64The pretty little manor-house lay somewhat retired from the most frequented roads behind a cur- tainof woodland, and it was therefore natural that the stranger who had already walked along the forest road for an entire hour should suddenly halt to refresh himself with clear spring-water for a probably still longer march. '
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26420.63With a passing glance towards the place she convinced herself that there was no one there, and turned immediately into the narrow foot-path leading to Hirschwinkel.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16970.63A window had been opened, some one had probably looked out, but Herr Markus was walking carelessly along the road like any passerby with no interest in the lonely house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6720.63No gateway separated its carefully-tended grounds, with their clumps of trees and feathery grass, from the wild woods beyond.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6050.63Then he brought a large bracket of dark wood and nailed it upon the wall, which was wainscoted neatly to the ceiling on this side.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47710.63The ruins have vanished, the high wall that surrounded them alone remains, and we are for the first time aware how extensive is the space which it encloses.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45120.63He turned into a path leading through the park-gates out upon the high-road; she followed him with her eyes until he was lost in the thicket.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_60.63With rods and nets hanging upon their walls, small benches beside their doors, and flanked on the south by hedges of hawthorn and dog-roses, they formed a picturesque group upon the pebbly beach of the 1* 5 6 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33690.63Until then, I had never cared to explore the precincts of the courtyard, it was too sterile of interest ; but as we walked directly towards the door of egress in the wall, I glanced over at the long line of back buildings opposite THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13680.62There was a large, open gateway in the left wing, through which the houses in the neighbouring streets were to be seen.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1350.62Three gentlemen were standing by the mound in silent expectation, while several labourers were digging and shovelling.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_100.62It is true that the stream alluded to wanders over one of the most sterile and lonely portions of the waste.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15690.62Must I tell you of all the terrible disclosures that have driven me forth from the White Castle never to set foot within its precincts again?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9260.62Herr Markus entered by it and walked along the narrow path that intersected the grass.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13490.62The green stalks that she had dropped in her hurry were still lying in the path; no foot had since passed along it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44410.62It was most certainly a torch borne along the narrow path by which Elizabeth had reached the convent tower.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42000.62As she reached the poplars that grew on the other side of the river, she turned once more to take a last look at the dear old house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43010.62The underbrush was still trodden down, and the stripped leaves were not quite withered upon the spot where Fräulein von Quittelsdorf and Hollfeld had broken through the bushes to reach the two lonely wanderers.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16880.62And then, after sunset, it had really come to pass that the key in the door leading out on the balcony was softly and hurriedly turned, and immediately afterwards the new master had gone down the steps and walked away between the wheat-field and the garden-wall, past the rear of the manorhouse, and across a piece of meadow, directly into the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33830.62Close to the ceiling a plain strip of wood, of much more modern date, had been nailed, upon which were still hanging some rags of black cloth; while the rest of what had once been the mourning drapery of the apartment lay in mouldering, shapeless heaps upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8850.61With this she shouldered her spade and marched along the path bordering the wheat-field at her companion’s side, while Louise turned sadly towards the house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31680.61It led, by many a narrow winding, through the thicket, out upon the broad path which traversed the forest, and for some distance formed the boundary line between the Prince’s domain and the estate of Herr von Walde.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17310.61While they leaned against the breastwork and enjoyed the confined but lovely view from the steep mountain over the valley beneath, Elizabeth told the story of Sabina’s ancestress, for doubtless this rampart had been the scene of her narrative.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3660.61The baronial estate to which it belonged was to be divided, and each portion—forest-land, farm-land, farm-buildings, meadows, and kitchen-gardens—sold singly to the highest bidder.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35660.61The river ran once more clear through the garland of green that bordered it on either side, and over the dear old house upon its bank there clambered a web of greenery that, day by day, concealed more and more of the white walls.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_280.61He saw the squirrels leaping from bough to bough, and the green feathers of the ferns on his pathway quivering as some small woodland creature skurried away through the net-work of plants that the creative force in the woodland soil threw across the very ruts in the road.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24580.60asked the crown-prince, pointing to the bamboo cottage.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2020.60She leaned forward, curiously, it seemed, from her leafy screen.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5160.60There the Paulinenthal broadened to a plain, to be cut off by those far-off heights.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66020.60And now the four oaks stood before me, taller and taller as I approached them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4480.60Heinz carried her trunk to the nearest village, and I went part of the way with them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40390.60Is it my fault if you walk beneath the tree in which I am sitting ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34710.60Until then he had not seen me, for my small person was entirely hidden by a stand of flowers upon his right.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18760.60path leading towards the door in the wall of the yard. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18660.60Two hours later I pursued the same path by Use's side, upon our way to the other house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14820.60There was only a short path through the cool, green shade.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1380.60They had begun to dig underneath the fir-tree.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9090.60He passed along the edge of the pine-grove behind the farm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2200.60The road along which she was walking lay in broad sunshine.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19720.60Sabina descended the steps into the court-yard.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45240.60The house tottered from foundation to roof-tree.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45150.60She stood involuntarily rooted to the spot, looking towards the tower whence he had come.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45020.60And when another face than his had appeared at the window the whole place had been to her lonely and deserted.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1700.60The councillor walked around to the western side of the house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10040.60How often as a child she had run up that hill and scrambled through the underbrush!
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4940.60The door into the warehouse garret was not walled up; through it there was constant intercourse between the front mansion and the Lenz abode.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1640.60And what a gigantic cross-stone there is above as 1 A magnificent block of erratic stone 1" The young man appeared again in the opening.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17090.60In the mean while Reinhard had been attentively examining the walls of the ruinous wing of the old castle which bounded the garden on the south.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4770.60At the Dierkhof, this oom was, after the fashion of ancient times, elevated a few inches above the clay-stamped floor of the barn, but was not separated from it in any other way, not even by a low board partition.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15060.60How Strang* and incomprehensible was everything that I beheld I The walls of the spacious apartment in which we stood were lined with books from floor to ceiling, as many books, I thought, as there were stalks of heather on the moor.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3500.60And above this little world of bloom and busy life several fruit trees and magnificent lindens waved their leafy crests, while upon a slight elevation were seen the remains of what had once been a pavilion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7630.60The wall that had once separated it from the conservatory had disappeared, and in its place slender pillars upheld the arched ceiling, which was painted with brilliant colours, after the Moorish style.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54800.60Behind them loomed the castle mill, hoary with age, its windows looking in the opposite direction, as if angry that its ancient mantle of green had been thus bordered with gay embroidery.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17300.60On top, the tolerably wide plateau was strewn with fresh gravel, and in the centre of it, embowered in the linden boughs which overshadowed the basin below, stood a group of home-made garden chairs and a table.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3200.60The facade of the forest-house retreated a few paces back of the two towers, which were connected by a balcony raised some steps from the ground,-—which steps, leading directly up from the soil of the forest, and dividing the stone balustrade of the balcony in the middle, terminated in large folding-doors, which led directly into the spacious hall.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2390.60In the extensive wall that, flanking the house on both sides, enclosed the entire courtyard, there was on the right of the entrance a handsome massive double door with a glittering, polished metal latch; on the left, the wall extended without interruption to the corner, where it was crowned by a wooden green-wreathed pavilion, perched there like a little round nest.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18150.59Above the terrace, connecting one tower with another, waved wreaths of flowing green, and a thick garland of oak-leaves encircled the massive oaken door leading into the hall.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4370.59It was only very rarely that a woman with a bundle of fagots on her back, or a troop of children in search of berries, passed along the path that traversed the bit of lawn in front of the manor-house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3870.59How bright and golden the warm spring sunshine looked, flooding the walls of the grand old pile of masonry heaped up in ancient times beneath the eye of its noble builder!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66760.59Now all was so lonely around me, but no : I shaded my eyes with my hand to be sure that I really saw such a wonder as a moving object upon the narrow, sandy path that Heinz dignified with the name of " road."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_580.59The little brook that wandered lonely across the moor was richer than many a haughty river that goes rushing past palaces and haunts of men.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2550.59It grew dark around me ; every one drew near ; the gentleman who had just descended the hillock, the labourers, all approached ; and I saw Heinz's huge shoes by my side.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4570.59Here only a narrow strip of grass ran along the wall; close at hand waved the nodding plumes of a wheat—field.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23050.59Herr Markus passed the dark, quiet linden arbour and went through the raspberry hedge into the yard, where at last he found some stir.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47720.59We do not tread upon the echoing pavement of a courtyard, a smooth gravel-walk is beneath our feet; before us stretches a level, well-kept lawn.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3220.59Running from each side of the main building were gloomy colonnades, whose granite pillars and arches seemed to defy the tooth of time.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54810.59It had undergone no alteration, save that the shabby old dial had been brightened, and the little gate leading through the wall into the adjacent park had been walled up.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_420.58By a circuitous route he then sought the giant linden, behind which Gabriel had retired.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10670.58And she pointed in the direction of a large village beyond the forest, where Heinz had once taken service. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2320.58Walk on in that dry part of the path; follow your nose; you can’t go astray.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6710.58A broad, well-kept path led through the forest, which melted imperceptibly into the park.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46430.58The meetings of the pair usually took place in the convent-tower or in the pavilion in the park.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25100.58It appeared that knowing that Elizabeth was going to the village, the governess had gone to meet her in the narrow forest path.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12070.58There was Susie’s old bleaching-ground, the meadow, planted with fruit-trees.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4910.58The path through the arched gateway of the second court-yard to the grating was strewn with green boughs and leaves, as though a joyous marriage train had been passing through the old ruins; and even on the sill of a high window, that showed the remains of coloured glass in the lacework of the stone rosette of its pointed arch, some boughs had been caught as they were carried past, and the trailing end of a wild vine was coiling its living green lovingly around the stone trefoil of the Holy Trinity, which betrayed unmistakably that the dark, dreary hall within had once been the chapel of the castle.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28970.58One stone after another had tumbled to the feet of the lofty oaks, whose branches had brushed against it while it formed part of some carved arch or window-frame, and which now strewed leaves upon it till it sank away far more softly bedded than the poor bodies of the nuns, which were, so said the legend, all sleeping together in a subterranean dungeon.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14680.57She walked around the corner of the house to the mountain-spring, the crystal waters of which were rippling through a primitive wooden trough into a hollow stone basin.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33470.57It had already been shorn of much of its height; its ivy mantle was torn, and dark window niches and mossy masonry came to light, which, perhaps, once were rich in stone carving.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17190.57Some sprays of the ivy had crept across the oak and climbed up to the sculptured arms on the principal front of the chapel, which looked forth grimly enough from beneath its intrusive decoration.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55350.57Upon the familiar stone pedestal before the door stood a Terpsichore with arms gracefully extended, just as Kitty had imagined her from the remains of the little marble foot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10130.57To preserve the ruinous aspect from without, there was no division into panes of the glass in the windows; one unbroken sheet had been set into the stone frames, hence the strange glitter in them when seen from the outside.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1950.57Of late he had usually, upon his return from Dambach, ridden through the street behind his mansion,.a street once frequented by the drays laden with linen, As the rider emerged from the darkness of the deep warehouse gate-way he presented a really imb 2* posing appearance.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_340.57He walked to the bridge, that he might thence enjoy a more complete view of the charming landscape; but he was not familiar with the treacherous pranks of such carelessly-constructed wooden affairs, for while his eyes were fixed upon the mill his foot suddenly slipped between the fir-trunk forming the outer edge of the bridge and the next plank, and there remained firmly wedged.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_00.57 THE hawthorns and syring-as in the corners of the court-yard of the Gerold estate were a mass of bloom, the water of the fountain sparkling in the May sunshine plashed noisily in its stone basin, and the spar- rows were chattering on the roofs of barns and stables.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43810.57Elizabeth soon relinquished all hope of being seen by passers-by,—and she knew that her feeble cry for help must die away unheard, for the tower lay hidden in the depths of the forest; no frequented road passed near it; and who would be likely to be walking at nightfall in the quiet path which led nowhere except to the convent tower?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21100.56Who indeed would have thought that the gray " nun" cower- ing in the corner of the carriage could ever have thus majes- tically acted her part as mistress of Schbnwerth, descending the steps upon her husband's arm ?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_100.56_ The principal mansion, the front of which faced the finest square in the town, contained halls and rooms in plenty, and had but few inmates, so there was no need to use the upper suite of rooms in the eastern wing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6570.56She ran towards the narrow passage where was the principal door to my grandmother's apart* ment, and which, bounding the long east side of the dwell- ing-rooms, opened into the garden.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1180.56The heather was not yet in bloom, the brownish- green moor lay smooth and level as a table, except where arose five grave mounds of the old giant Huns, one large and four smaller.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6140.56A road unfrequented save by the Woodmen and those engaged in transporting timber separated the Hirschwinkel estate from the Count’s forest, as it was called,—the royal woodland domain.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_60.56The few villagers whose path now and then led them past the manor-house of Hirschwinkel still continued, therefore, to glance up at the bow-window in the upper story, in the persistent expecta- * Relatives.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14550.56He could understand the refreshment it must afford to both body and soul to exchange, if only for a few hours, the deserted dusty farm-house behind the pine-grove for that pretty red structure.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6750.56No human being crossed her path during her long walk; it even seemed as though the trees rustled more softly here in the leafy avenues and arcades than in the forest beyond, and as if the birds modulated their notes more gently.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10150.56As such, its upper story had been furnished after the most primitive fashion; now, its splendour far eclipsed that of the finest ancient banqueting-hall of the old castle, so long since swept from the face of the earth.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6930.56They emerged from the forest, and entered the Schbnwerth valley through grounds with which the ducal park could not vie.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7150.56"Oh, yes," she said, "I have already seen your lovely golden hair; yesterday as I was walking in the forest you were leaning over a wall up there at the old castle."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41130.56Three o’clock had long since struck in the Lindhof church-tower when Elizabeth hurried down the mountain.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19570.56Upon the stone bench under the tree Bertha was sitting, apparently quite composed, trimming carrots.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_190.56The grandson allowed the old castle to fall into decay, while he enlarged and improved the modern mansion considerably.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54950.56And the ancient wooden arched bridge leading across the stream to the house by the river was also destroyed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43120.56She hurried around the corner of the house towards the shrubbery, probably to remove there the traces of tears before she was seen upon the public highway.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34630.56As she did so, she saw the ring that had eluded their search lying upon the clean white sand on the floor of the cage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5020.5631 and gravel-path.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1380.56Well, yes, that may be.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6340.56The door that had just been closed was never used.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58350.56I crossed the bridge.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52740.56he went on, inexora- bly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3770.56I carefully picked it up.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29750.56Let him see that they are at- tended to !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25700.56155 wny to church.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15430.56My only path is by your side.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21810.56And just look at her there on the edge of the forest!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16230.56We shall not cross each other’s paths.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8400.56Such altars might often be erected."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19780.56She ran into the house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10120.56She never appeared when Elizabeth was at the Lodge.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46050.56No one means to take her from you!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25600.56Those branches were still bare.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2630.56There lay the small house, built of stone, that had formerly withstood the torch and axe of the rebellious peasantry, its rough and blackened walls veined with a net-work of fresh mortar.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66710.56The broom was tangled about my feet, but the place where the Hun's grave had been broken into, the year before, still lay bald and bare ; and there were little heaps of sand blown about the spot where the human ashes had been sprinkled.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1280.56The Dierkhof, my home, stood isolated upon the moor ; the path from the forest that connected it with the outside world was rarely trodden, and left the giant graves far on one side, never could I remember to have seen a stranger in their vicinity.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24240.56The narrow pathway, usually damp and green, looked bleached; the grass and ferns beside it languished and drooped, and the brook that crossed it was nearly dry; the plank that spanned it-—a rustic bridgeseemed placed there in mockery.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7640.56Below, a grating of delicate gilt-bronze tracery ran from pillar to pillar, separating the mosaic floor of the Moorish room from the white sand and green sod of the conservatory.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4180.55Claudine drove up the steep castle hill and alighted at the portal of the wing inhabited by the Dowager Duchess.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58300.55Oh, if I could only wander on along the smooth, snow-covered roads I on and on, far into the moor where Use and Heinz were now sitting peacefully beside the great stove !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2140.55He walked sedately to and fro, gazed long into the open mound, and finally ascended the hillock and looked across the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1220.55The old king is buried there, for it is the only mound where there is a tree, and where there are yellow flowers, there are none on the other hillocks," I had said, when a child, to Heinz as we sat together upon the mound.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_110.55It runs parallel, for a long way, to the strip of forest on the horizon, and only after mature consideration decides to direct its course thither.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4400.55It threatened to pass through the most fertile portion of the estate, while, in farmer Griebel’s opinion, it might just as well make use of a more barren tract.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4480.55But my old great-grandmother was a bold, saucy girl, and used sometimes to pasture her goats right under the walls of the castle court-yard.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43880.55Sometimes she stood still at the corner looking toward Castle Lindhof, which was the nearest inhabited mansion, and raised her voice in a vain cry for help.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6950.55the young girl cried, pointing to a decaying wooden bridge, the arches of which spanned the stream at some distance.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12480.55We will set it back at least thirty yards from the tiresome neighbourhood of the rails; We will put the stables on the north side of the house, and the court-yard behind the buildings, all which Will of course require the clearing of a considerable piece of Woodland.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_240.55And thus it happened that, a short time afterward, Hans von Gnadewitz was to be found not only upon the boughs of the genealogical tree in the hall of the new castle, but suspended by a rope around his neck to a bough of one of the actual trees in the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9720.55This ruin, encircled by the water of the fosse, certainly answered the end for which it had first been preserved; but the succeeding generation, being of an eminently practical turn of mind, had drained the ditch, and planted vegetables in the damp, rich soil.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41630.54Strange I whithersoever I turned, the man in the other house stood by my side, thoughtful for me, grave and silent, but not to be avoided; and I rebelled against his care.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_500.54Once only a tenant of the mill, he had slowly but surely stretched forth the arms of his growing wealth, until not only the mill was his own, but also the baronial estate to which it had originally belonged.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6150.54This road very nearly defined the limits of the valley; there was but a narrow strip of meadow-land between it and the magnificent host of beeches that climbed steeply up the mountain-side, and upon this meadow-land stood the house of the royal keeper of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40370.54Fear was entertained lest even the mosaic tiles upon the castle roof should not resist the fury of the storm ; it was therefore not to be wondered at that the light bamboo roof of the Indian cottage was blown away entirely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35120.54And he has flowers, such quantities of flowers that he could bury himself and his ugly old house upon the street in them, but in the room where he sits at work late and early there is not a single green leaf.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4740.54Therefore, with an air of hasty resolve, she walked on towards the strip of grass along the western wall,—probably intending to go to the back part of the house, where the maids would certainly be found in the stables.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4940.54She could easily proceed along a partially cleared path, across which timid hares and squirrels ran fleetly now and then, until she reached the green rampart which had only been seen from a distance yesterday.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3210.54Opposite them was the imposing front of the castle, with a flight of broad stone steps, and a clumsy iron balustrade, leading to the entrance door upon the first story.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2970.54That was, as old Sabina said, an ancient iron flag-staff upon the roof of Castle Gnadeck, from which in times long gone by the proud banner of the Gnadewitzes had flouted the air.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38780.54You will hardly be able to reach the first circlo of lawn in the garden.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17820.54I have never seen her, and avoid the path to the Indian cot."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17510.54He looked from the window towards the Indian garden With a smile.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16700.5497 grave dug beneath that obelisk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38860.54At last, however, I sat securely among the topmost boughs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36680.54Charlotte stood as if rooted to the spot.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35910.54palms in the hot-houses there are so famous.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3330.54They stopped beneath the birch-tree. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25680.54Without knowing it, I had partly ascended a wooded hill.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17770.54there was Use coming from the shrubbery below, with a long broom over her shoulder.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9130.54There, on the other side of the grove, its domain began.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8580.54Fine management in the manor-house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26410.54She would soon be able to look into the space between those three rude walls, and she must find it empty.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5270.54Under the last trees of the avenue stood a couch.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30150.54"And pray, if one may ask, why did you leave the principal path yourself?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9890.54She passed her sisters and crossed the bridge.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21010.54At last they emerged upon the sunny open fields.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18740.54After this a shadow haunted Villa Baumgarten.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31260.53He leaned back upon the bench, so that the tendrils of the hop-vine swept across his forehead ; his glance strayed from the green depths of foliage above him to the picturesque cottage and the rustic table. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25060.53aspiring branch of the ancient merchant race, and, as if in protest against any further community with the other house, a barred and bolted gate was erected at the en- trance upon the bridge from the Karolinenlust side.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26170.53It had three walls roughly built of coarse blocks of stone, and a roof of pinetrunks, and if the rain did not wash away the moss that stopped the chinks between them, they certainly would afford a shelter from wind and weather.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33880.53It was in fact a coffin,—a small, narrow, leaden coffin,—standing out in strong contrast with the black velvet covering of its pedestal, which was thus found lonely and forgotten within these three walls.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42900.53The murmur of voices was still audible as she went through the mill-yard, but scarcely had the small door in the wall separating the park from the mill-garden closed behind her before an aristocratic silence reigned around.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3850.53She turned into the open door of the court-yard of the castle mill, scattering before her a number of chickens assembled upon the wagon-road to pick up some scattered grains of wheat.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36090.53In the summer the lessons were given in the garden, and when they were over the children, for the most part living in the closest and darkest alleys of the town could enjoy a romp on the grass in the shade of the fruit-trees.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18990.53The little, wrinkled hand lay confidingly upon the girl’s arm, and the two walked along as if they belonged to each other, and must together cross the bridge and enter the "Doctor’s house" in its peaceful retirement among the trees in the twilight.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9780.53There was no trace of fresh mortar on the walls to tell of modern repair, every stone was old, yet none were wanting; the high arched windows in the tower, formerly closed by decaying wooden shutters, gaped wide, and within the stone window-frames the sunny, tremulous air glittered as if some imprisoned sunbeam were weaving there a mysterious golden web.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2390.53Its entire front wall was like one large pane of glass, divided only by narrow veins of lead and very delicate door-frames, and this was all that intervened between the floor of the room and the broad, imposing terrace outside.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37750.53She walked calmly and quietly by my side through the green-house and the front part of the garden, but scarcely was the bridge behind us when she drew a long, deep breath, and, pausing, pressed both hands to her heart. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54430.53The outline of the mill buildings rose black and shapeless against the sky,—it all seemed lonely and deserted; the bark of the watch-dog, who resented the approaching footsteps, sounded lost as in some endless desert.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_430.52The lonely white figure was leaning against the trunk of the tree.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31290.52The forester is begging for a new roof, to replace the straw one; but I cannot have it changed."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2590.52How can he know how it feels to lie on the grass in the Dambach garden and Put that down, if you please.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3220.52And if Beata should leave the quiet Paulinenthal at a husband's side?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2290.52There lay the Owl’s Nest, the protecting roof that was to shelter them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64660.52I could never more wander lonely in the wide world; that hand would protect me everywhere.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4880.52I could tell where Heinz had sat by the immense pile of potato-skins.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27990.52Quite at my ease, I pointed up into the boughs of the elm-tree by which we were passing. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1270.52Hitherto the large mound had been my garden, my an* disputed territory.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17160.52The man who is about to enter, like myself, a dark path " " Dark, dark enough!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6950.52The new man in Hirschwinkel will soon make a clean sweep at the farm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17610.52I did not know that a watch was kept in the forest lodge upon every passer-by," he said, between embarrassment and vexation. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42860.52Outside, she followed the narrow, winding way that led through a grove to the pond.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3250.52The outer walls of the structure and the colonnades were all that could be regarded without terror in this space.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29010.52For the sake of this prospect the tower had been rebuilt and kept in constant repair.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33230.52"Open her safe, of course, and scatter her stocks abroad among the people."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29910.52Dresden is and always must be my home, and Villa Baumgarten only a temporary abode."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12060.52With a bunch of them in her hand, she sauntered on as far as the ancient wooden bridge.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49460.52She succeeded in passing him, and was walking hurriedly around the grassy circumference of the pond, while he kept by her side. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46030.52Surely there could be no more harmonious sight than that of those two stately figures walking side by side.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27100.52At the extreme end of the path the maid of honour now made her appearance, with Leo.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1580.52And I can perfectly well remember Herbert’s driving goats and throwing stones at the windows.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26870.52I did not know why I was so startled to see a light dress fluttering among the trees in the direction of the gate in the wall.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29430.52And then, arm in arm, they walked along the path leading through the raspberry hedge to the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2240.52asked Herr Markus, pointing towards an isolated group of trees behind which the girl had vanished.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8790.52She took her seat in a windowed recess, and looked out upon the landscape, upon which the first shadows of approaching evening were falling.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6390.52"But if you choose to see what you have carefully planted, choked up and ruined by poisonous weeds and mildew—why, do it."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4030.52We shall never have to pass through the older court-yards, which are really dangerous places, surrounded as they are by crumbling ruins."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22400.52Just where Goethe describes the emperor ascending the throne, there is an ugly green spot.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18040.52"Now, Elsie," said Ernst, as the other three vanished behind a group of trees, "we’ll see which of us will reach the corner first."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11950.52The white spot was the cap of Sabina, who was sitting at the door of the Lodge waiting for them.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11920.52Suddenly the forester leaned forward and pointed through the boughs, for they had entered the wood.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45050.52The circle of water about it glistened, and through the shrubbery she could see the graceful bridge spanning the ditch.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10100.51Its windows weit, large, but a carved wooden trellis in front of the glass pro- tected each one.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_350.51At that time their group of buildings opposite the market square was like a bee-hive, so thriving was their business.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64650.51I think that my feet had never been so winged with joy, even when I had been free from care upon my darling moor, as upon this afternoon as I passed through the gardens.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56790.5111 And you have buried yourself in the very darkest corner to-night, when I wanted to surround the little moorland Princess with all the light that the old house could afford ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36940.51As we passed through the interlacing boughs that separated ut from the group and the light of the lamps, my courage failed me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25820.51I longed to see the screaming child, but I could not climb the wall, which was high and smooth ; nevertheless I could climb trees like a squirrel.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14960.51Like a pearl in a green billow, the little castle lay embosomed in the forest that climbed the mountain in the background.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_90.51The labourers in the forest, the wood—cutters, pitch-boilers, and soot-burners, missed her sadly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17620.51The children had wandered on before them, hand in hand, and disappeared now and then among the trees on either side of the path, plucking flowers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39870.51For a long while Kitty wandered aimlessly in the park, through its quiet leafy alleys to its most secret recesses.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34820.51She left, the kitchen and went into the garden, at the bottom of which Flora stood gazing abroad over the picket-fence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30760.51It was an ancient cottage, with slanting walls and crooked windows, behind which the white crocheted curtains of the forester's wife appeared but dimly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10140.51Against the opposite wall of the room stood a bed- stead of reeds, and upon its snow-white coverlet a figure was stretched.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2640.51It certainly was no knightly mansion, and the gray coats of the owls that housed in the ruins of the chapel were much more in harmony with it than silken court trains would have been.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3420.51On one side the waste, empty hall, with its re-echoing marble pavement, and without one article of furniture; on the other, an apartment abounding in luxury.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10110.51The room her childish eye had never been able to pierce was a spacious vaulted hall, the massive arches of which supported the entire structure above.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21360.51It was a pretty little structure, built of tiles, with shining windows, and the customary antlers upon the roof, and was a half-way station between the castle and the Schn THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46120.51Here and there an under gardener, terror in his face, crossed our path, and long before we reached the wall of the courtyard we heard from the other side a coo* THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45960.51Acres of ground were often devoted to a single species of tree, and hot-houses filled with palms, orchids, and cacti surrounded the old castle.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13350.51The noise of the parade died away in the distance, and the men before us at last halted in a secluded, quiet street of very imposing mansions, just before a gloomy building of stone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28920.51Year after year the giant boughs of the oaks had tapped at the windows of the cells and leaned above the high wall over the small garden of the convent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19480.51The strip of forest which bordered, as it were, the dark mantle of pines was still light, light as if the dome of dark green had been removed from its shady aisles.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6670.51He sat there with an air of proud indifference, guiding the fiery horses that whirled the carriage along the smooth, broad road leading directly through a portion of the park.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_470.51If there is anything that more than all else adds to the air of comfort in the large, living-rooms of the dwellings in the Thuringian forest, it is the big, tiled stove which sometimes does not relax its activity, even in the height of the summer.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14840.51The pebbles beneath her feet sparkled in the stream of light that poured through the windows and cast the huge shadows of their arches upon the gravel sweep in front of the castle.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5610.51He had just come home from the fields, and related with much exultant rubbing of his hands that the railroad engineer was driving in his stakes over in the meadow-land,—the arable soil was left untouched.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43890.51At last she ceased all such efforts, and seated herself upon the bench which was set into the outer wall of the small landing, at the top of the stairs, and which was tolerably protected by the projecting roof from wind and weather.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40970.51The grave had been made ready in the Lindhof church-yard, and in the afternoon, between five and six o’clock, the leaden coffin containing the mortal remains of the beautiful Lila was to be consigned to the earth.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3570.51They determined, therefore, to venture up into one of the large side wings by a worn but tolerably secure flight of stone steps, and thus attempt to arrive at the interior of the connecting building.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28990.51On the flat roof above, that was surrounded by a stone balustrade, the stairs were capped by a very small, square apartment, from which egress upon the roof was obtained through a massive oaken door.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4250.51He lifted me up, high above his head, to the old, deserted beehives which hung from a beam in the barn and were used as nests by the hens, and I, chuckling with pleasure, reached down the smooth white eggs to Use, who stood by his side.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12210.51The vast, sunny moorland, the vigorous, rustling oaks above me, vanished, the wretched, dark back room opened before me, and I looked out upon the damp, barren garden inclosed within high houses. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3920.51In the mean time Elizabeth had gone to the window of the first room which they had entered, and was trying to part the boughs and vines which grew so thick and strong all along this side of the building that they formed a barrier through which only a greenish twilight penetrated.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26020.51Her searching glance scanned for a moment the neighbour- ing thicket, and the path through it; but no unbidden witness was to be seen, only a little monkey swung himself from the bough of a tree that overshadowed the bamboo cot down upon its roof, along the ridge of which he scrambled.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6130.51There the deceitful green of velvet lawns dotted with flower-beds surrounded the villa, and all the smooth paths winding among artificial groves ended at last in the frightful disappointment of the sandy waste.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33750.51Until now they had come upon no room that had been closed; the roof of the main building was partly gone, and standing upon this spot, you could look in all directions through a labyrinth of open rooms, half ruinous passages, and through great gaps in the floors down into the castle chapel.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21320.50That part of the Schnwerth park devoted to fruit lay ad- joining the Indian garden, and was protected by the moun- tains, the situation of which made this piece of tropical vegetation possible beneath these cold northern skies.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45520.50The pretty arches of the bridge had vanished, the green artificial hill was seamed by huge rifts, and the old chestnuts which it had nourished were thrust forth from its bosom to lie stretched on the ground, their boughs interlaced like the horns of deer dead in mortal conflict.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3540.48The light did not shine through it, as through its doorless and windowless companions; its flat roof, finished in front and at the back by a heavy stone balustrade, must have bidden defiance to time and tempest, as had also the gray window-panes which peeped out here and there from the tangled growth of vines that covered everything.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15240.48One scarcely sees where they set their foot, but there it is planted firmly, and they well know how to mount the ladder round by round, until, suddenly, they attain their end, and are, with all their seeming humility, seated on high, having stolen a lover who had belonged to another, or a widowed father from his daughters.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30770.48The building had never rejoiced either in tiles or slates ; a well-preserved, stout roof of thatch oovered it, crowned with a chimney mighty enough to suggest that a whole regiment of soldiers might have been cooked for and baked for in the fireplace within the house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13410.48Upon one of the steps which led down to the garden at the back lay a snow-white greyhound, with his slender body stretched out upon the hot stone and his head resting upon his forepaws; he blinked at Elizabeth as though she had been an old acquaintance.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25060.48In the centre of the veranda of the Indian cottage, upon the smooth matting, the children had emptied the powder in a little heap, and in the midst of it had stuck the end of the waxen taper, which was burning brightly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_440.48His head brushed branches that were far beyond my reach, and his burly form so completely shut out all view of the moor, that a granite wall seemed suddenly to be interposed between the outer world and my small person.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42690.48Through the cooing of the doves and the distant murmur of the weir came the sound of excited human voices, and just behind the last chestnut the young girl had a view of the gravelled space in front of the factory.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_360.48Bales of linen were heaped up even in the upper stories of the warehouse, and every week huge drays, heavily laden, drove abroad into the wide world.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2490.48There she had dwelt after her husband's death, and had filled with the loveliest flowers the mossy precincts of the ancient convent,—the Walpurgis church- yard, as the peasants called it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17290.48With his own hands he had mended the steps which led to the top of the rampart, and they arose now smooth and white from the close-shaven turf which clothed its sloping side.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19250.48The gravelled square in front of the building was swarming at present with people,—men, women, and children in a state of evident excitement,—gesticulating violently.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2490.48Banished long since as old-fashicned from the brilliant apartments in the castle, it had passed through every stage of degradation to the apartments of the grooms, where it must have been scrubbed with sand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2390.48The land with which the Gerolds had endowed the founder had then reverted to them, and the smaller portion, with the ruined structure, had fallen to the share of the Neuhaus branch.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47650.48We shall ascend the mountain by a broad well-kept road, leading to the castle gate, which has exchanged its rusty bolts and bars for more convenient fastenings.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2450.48Her mother was sitting in a large arm-chair, which the forester had pushed near a window that commanded a lovely view down one of the vistas of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55290.48The shutters of the house had been thrown open for two weeks; the rooms had been freshly painted and papered, and a flag-pole had been erected upon the roof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_80.47In the boughs, high above your head, the finch and thrush have their nests, and timorous deer eye you shyly from the thicket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3060.47CHAPTER IIL I went towards the side door, which opened between the threshing-hall and the dwelling-house into the court- yard.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6630.47It is not, indeed, hidden behind palisades and a. moat, and I do not even know that it contains selfadjusting revolvers ; but there is something about it that says, ‘ Stand off!’ The walls bristle with weapons and trophies of victory.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2930.47To be sure, the couple of acres there behind the pine-grove have been allowed to run down badly; they belong to the farm, and are not well managed; the lawyer of course will have written you about it."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19500.47Kitty strayed aside, plucking these flowers, while Flora and Henriette walked on in the narrow path leading to the pines.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11350.47Indeed, the castle miller was too careful a man to allow any of his property to go to ruin; there is not a nail wanting in the house, not a slate missing on the roof."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9940.47Upon the open lawn shot uj the straight trunk of a banana BO THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30750.47This forest-house was none of those modern structures in the Swiss style that one sees planted on the edges of forests.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52770.47Your conduct often incenses me greatly, and unconsciously you yourself destroy the ground already crumbling beneath your feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28680.47I would not look at them, but turned my face away, and mechanically plucked at the bush nearest me, scattering its leaves upon the gravel at my feet. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24880.47Thus it happened that the exterior of the dark, granite house in the retired street had never been beautified or renewed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24370.47Of course, you will not wear borrowed finery," said Use to me, when Charlotte had disappeared in the grove on the opposite side of the pond. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14930.47Oh, sir, I have had a terrible glimpse of that sphere which is isolated from the rest of mankind by walls and barricades!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5560.47The girl worked in the fields,—must she not be subjected to the bold gaze of every low fellow who stepped up to her to ask his way?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28480.47" He is a farmer," she replied, walking on and shrinking away from the wet pine-boughs that intruded upon the path. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26330.47It was an open hay-wagon with some planks laid across it, and had probably picked up the forester on his Way home and left him there.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18890.47This corner of the garden was so retired, and none of the people around would venture to approach the manor-house from this side.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14400.47CHAPTER X. HERR MARKUS turned promptly into the road leading to the pine-grove.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10360.47Meanwhile, Herr Markus had approached the gate in the hedge, but had paused in some hesitation behind the raspberry-bushes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43610.47Elizabeth well knew what it signified,—a funeral train was descending the mountain from the ruins of old Castle Gnadeck.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3530.47Only one building of two stories, connecting two high wings, attracted attention from its closed appearance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33850.47It represented an irregular triangle, and in one somewhat rounded corner was the very small window whose existence they had suspected.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17130.47Through them could be seen the dark court-yard, with its crumbling, ghostly walls like a picture painted in gray.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12810.47"Well, for aught I care, they may raise monuments in his honour, and strew laurels in his path, as much as they choose.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13690.47A number of new wooden boxes were piled up on the clean-swept pavement, and the total absence of curtains to the win- dows of these back buildings designated them as the business part of the house of Claudius & Co. Just as we entered the yard a groom was leading 8 St THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRWCES8.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54940.47Villa and park passed again into the hands of an old and noble family, and the new owner had the ruins of the ancient tower cleared away, the ditch filled up, and even the artificial mound levelled, that there might be nothing upon the aristocratic soil to bring to mind the miserable parvenu who had there met his wretched and disgraceful death.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1270.46The poor fellows ha been shut up so long in the Dambach stables."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55760.46It had grown late when I finally crossed the bridge and came in sight of the conservatory.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28120.46If not that, you might be made captive beneath the linen roof of a gypsy wagon.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26140.46Herr Markus ran across the meadow and directly up the mountain-side.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25310.46He saw her standing in the doorway with downcast eyes, and he longed to fall at her feet.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7700.46She hastened with winged speed through the park, and along the path which ascended the mountain.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5040.46While Elizabeth was standing upon the embankment, the forester appeared at one of the upper windows of the dwelling.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43870.46Utterly at a loss, Elizabeth walked to and fro upon the flat roof.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33780.46As well as they could judge from where they stood, the room lay like a wedge between the chapel and the space behind.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1280.46May be she is right; but are your children bold enough to brave the ghostly inhabitants that are said to haunt those old walls?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9900.46A touch of her little foot thrust away the dog from her path, and she ascended the hill.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42570.46Again on a morning in September she found herself in the large room in the castle mill.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6200.46Within those four walls there was never any sound of the bustle and noise of housekeeping, but in the window in the gable hung four wooden bird-cages, Where finches and thrushes piped and chattered; and two nibbling goats climbed about the steep dcclivity at the back of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7580.46His irritation quickened his steps; he passed through the underbrush far more quickly than before, and soon reached a narrow worn path which carried him to the road leading to the manor-house.’ As he left the forest he saw Frau Griebel coming from the saw-mill.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1890.46From the thick underbrush at their feet the trees reared their colossal trunks, and above, their boughs intertwined in a fraternal embrace as though determined to defend their peaceful, quiet home from light and air as from two deadly enemies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19910.46The white front of a house on the other side of the street could, it is true, be seen from them, but its light surface threw out in stronger contrast the shadows upon the arched stone ceiling and brown leather hangings.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24680.46It was seldom used, and might have escaped stranger eyes, for in some places it was overgrown with low bushes, and fallen leaves lay so thick among the gnarled roots of the trees that it seemed never to have been trodden by the foot of man.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17180.46It had thrown a green mantle coquettishly over its falling form,—an impenetrable garment of ivy wreathed it all over from the ground to the ruinous roof, and effectually concealed every crack and aperture in the masonry.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28420.45She will flourish again, after her short absence, in the sunshine of your eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24510.45Every one beneath the maple-trees was occupied and interested.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21350.45Upon this opening stood what was called the huntsman's cottage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12100.45Those infamous nucals have been cutting boughs from the new plantations.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_920.45But must every one be a democrat Who does not choose to creep on the ground like a Worm?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_130.45This was what people outside in the streets and byways said, and those within the house did not contradict them.

Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_29220.94"We now drove along by the park wall; the great gate of skilfully wrought iron stood open; the luxuriant foliage of the beautiful park here parted, and let the eye roam over velvety green lawns and broad flower-beds to the white, castle-like buildings.
Disraeli_Lothair_21190.94He entered a green and winding lane, fringed with tall elms, and dim with fragrant shade, and, after proceeding about half a mile, came to a long, low-built lodge, with a thatched and shelving roof, and surrounded by a rustic colonnade covered with honeysuckle.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_31320.93It led to a small gate opening on a long, narrow lane, which led to the Vicarage, leaving the little church and its picturesque burying-ground a little to the right; the thick grove which surrounded it forming a leafy yet impenetrable wall to one side of the garden.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_21710.93Almost at his feet he saw the mansion-house, the chimney standing out of the middle of the roof, or rather, like a black square hole in it,--the trees almost directly over their stems, the fences as lines, the whole nearly as an architect would draw a ground-plan of the house and the inclosures round it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_96020.93He led the way through the gap to a patch of turf on the heathy ground, screened by bushes and dwarf trees on the side nearest to the road, and commanding in the opposite direction a grandly desolate view over the broad brown wilderness of the moor.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_39530.92Another bar-place let them in again to another narrow, wild, bush-grown path around the edge of the cliff, the lower spur of the great hill; and down over shelving rocks, a long, gradual descent, to the foot of the fall.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_27430.92The gardens were partly inside the moat, but chiefly beyond them, and were joined by two bridges a foot bridge and one with a carriage way and there was another bridge at the end of the house furthest from the road, leading from the back door to the stables and farmyard.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_2860.92The entire ground in our front was indeed a succession of these small lakes, with villages interspersed, and occasionally some stunted woods; great morasses extended around these ponds, through which led the highroads or such bypaths as conducted from one village to another.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_105490.92It opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and disappearing in the darkness between two walls.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_25030.92The grounds are there laid out in the old fashion of straight paths, with borders of box, which form hedges of great height and density, and are shorn and trimmed to the evenness of a wall of stone, at the top and sides.
Collins_No_Name_38460.92He advanced some fifty or sixty yards along the paved footway; the outlying suburbs of York on one side of him, a rope-walk and some patches of kitchen garden occupying a vacant strip of ground on the other.
Collins_Armadale_66530.92He passed through the gate, crossed the bridge, and, opening a door at the other end, found himself in a summer-house thickly covered with creepers, and commanding a full view of the garden from end to end.
Warner_Queechy_9620.91They had reached a height of the mountain that cleared them a view, and over the tops of the trees they looked abroad to a very wide extent of country undulating with hill and vale,--hill and valley alike far below at their feet.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_39610.91From the little copse of brushwood where we now lay, to the farmhouse, the ground was completely open,--not a shrub nor a bush grew; a slight ascent of the road led up to the gate, which could not be more than three hundred paces in front of us.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_79840.91Scrambling our way over fallen houses and massive fragments of masonry, we reached the square that forms the highest point of the city; from thence we looked down upon the great plain, with the majestic Danube winding along for miles.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_67140.91The house, which, with its dependencies of stables, granaries, and out-houses, resembles a little village, is surrounded by a large, straggling orchard of aged fruit-trees, through which the approach from the high road leads.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_40230.91On our left as we look down, the country to the east of the village is thickly wooded; but we can see that there is a village green on that side, and a few scattered cottages, the farthest of which stands looking out like a little white eye, from the end of a dense copse.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_810.91The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
Collins_No_Name_71090.91Southward, the high ridge of the sea dike, and the grim, massive circle of a martello tower reared high on its mound of grass, closed the view darkly on all that lay beyond.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_45760.91At one end of the house, painted white and covered with tiles, a wood-house, with a loft over it, formed at the angle a small wing, much lower than the main body of the building.
Reade_Foul_Play_34340.91Four short, thick, umbrageous trees stood close to the stream on this side, and on the eastern side was a grove of gigantic palm-trees, at whose very ankles the river ran.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_67630.91Thence the light vehicle threaded a maze of shady lanes and pleasant field-paths, into a rustic, newly-made road, leading a little to the north of Covent Garden.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_65440.91It led out of the high-road by a field-gate--the White Gate; from which a narrow path wound down to a stream, thence up a green slope to the house; a mere farm-house, nothing more.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_61820.91A half-mile to the eastward of the town, two or three hundred feet up the steep mountain side, stood a large, low, white house embosomed in trees and gardens.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_61350.91Within, a few narrow streets of white houses, running parallel with the sea, upon a strip of flat, which seemed not two hundred yards in breadth; and behind, the mountain wall, covering the whole in deepest shade.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_20930.91The house was too large and pretentious for the grounds it stood in, these being hardly extensive enough to be called a park; they consisted of finely varied wood and dell, and were laid out in grass and fed off by sheep.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_234680.91Had he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut?
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_31030.91A carved balustrade, freshly painted in the lower stories, but growing dingier as we ascend, borders the staircase with its quaintly twisted and intertwined pillars, from top to bottom.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_25570.91The long frontage of the house consists of two huge masses of dusky-red brickwork, (you can hardly call them _wings_,) connected together by a lower building in the centre, which contains the hall.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_19350.91The views of the finest portions of the mountain-range were magnificent, the meadows about the villa had been laid out in gardens, and the adjoining forest so cleared as to form a natural park.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_12850.91The spring sunshine filled half the court; over the rest lay the shadow of the huge keep, towering massive above the three-storied line of building which formed the side next it.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_140.91Its front is ornamented with a portico of half-a-dozen wooden pillars, supporting a balcony, beneath which a flight of wide granite steps descends towards the street.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_680.91They were now advancing up the courtyard; and the long extent of the villa, with its iron-barred lower windows and balconied upper ones, became visible, stretching back towards a grove of trees.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_25790.91Here you may see a modern dwelling, and a garden with its vines and olive-trees, perched on the lofty dilapidation of a tomb, which forms a precipice of fifty feet in depth on each of the four sides.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_11210.91With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, the ancient town tumbled its crooked and narrow streets down the mountainside, through arched passages and by steps of stone.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_1410.91A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.
Evans_St_Elmo_9980.91The parsonage stood on the skirts of the village, in a square immediately opposite the church, and was separated from it by a wide handsome street, lined on either side with elm trees.
Evans_Beulah_30.91The whitewashed palings inclosed, as a front yard or lawn, rather more than an acre of ground, sown in grass and studded with trees, among which the shelled walks meandered gracefully.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_13560.91There is a deep valley around which rise lofty hills topped with white villages or ancient towers, or dotted with villas which peep forth from amid dense groves.
Cooper_The_Spy_56910.91A heavy piece of timber lay across the girths of the barn, but a little way from the southern door, which opened directly upon a full view of the river, as it stretched far away towards the bay of New York.
Collins_No_Name_37020.91IN that part of the city of York which is situated on the western bank of the Ouse there is a narrow street, called Skeldergate, running nearly north and south, parallel with the course of the river.
Bronte_Villette_76670.91It was no street at all; it seemed rather to be part of a square: it was quiet, grass grew between the broad grey flags, the houses were large and looked very old--behind them rose the appearance of trees, indicating gardens at the back.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_12980.90Beneath them, from the base of the abrupt descent, the city spread wide away in a close contiguity of red-earthen roofs, above which rose eminent the domes of a hundred churches, beside here and there a tower, and the upper windows of some taller or higher situated palace, looking down on a multitude of palatial abodes.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_78600.90He presently found himself on a terrace, looking out on the deep blue lake, there divided by the promontory of Bellagio, into two branches, the magnificent mountain forms rising opposite to him.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_36860.90At Edgehill the whole village consisted of three or four cottages; but there was a small old church, with an old grey tower, and a narrow, green, almost dark, churchyard, surrounded by elm-trees.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_39000.90It was about twenty feet high, twenty-eight feet wide, and fifty feet long, and ended in an enormous bay window, that opened upon the lawn.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_29330.90All around the high flat a valley lay, like a moat, or as if some broad river had been dried up in its course, and, century after century, gradually converted into meadow, woodland, and town.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_80750.90Passing from one of its narrow streets into an open place in the midst, all at once he beheld, towering above him, on a height that overlooked the whole city and surrounding country, a great crucifix.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_180.90A succession of rocky precipices descended from the terrace on which the house stood, down to the very edge of the Danube, and from the point where I sat the view extended for miles in every direction.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_11110.90The road led through a wide open country for some miles, and at last disappeared in the recesses of a dark pine wood, that covered the horizon for miles on either side.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57790.87I wonder what other bridegroom ever looked as he did -- so bent up to a purpose, so grimly resolute: or who, under such steadfast brows, ever revealed such flaming and flashing eyes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54340.86He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31070.85she laughed continually; her laugh was satirical, and so was the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76200.83I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56850.82"This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed: the black eyebrows widely raised over the bloodshot eyes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85900.81His eye, bent on me, expressed at once stern surprise and keen inquiry.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30890.81She had a slight figure, a pale, gentle face, and fair hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60240.79I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45450.77I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89810.76met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87120.76His lips and cheeks turned white -- quite white.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68680.76she exclaimed, while her dark and deep eye sparkled.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59220.76I recognised well that purple face, -- those bloated features.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58130.76How his eye shone, still watchful, and yet wild beneath!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31510.75I saw Mr. Rochester smile:- his stern features softened; his eye grew both brilliant and gentle, its ray both searching and sweet.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9400.73At the utterance of Miss Temple's name, a soft smile flitted over her grave face.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56830.73I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57900.72By Mr. Rochester they were not observed; he was earnestly looking at my face from which the blood had, I daresay, momentarily fled: for I felt my forehead dewy, and my cheeks and lips cold.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2980.72I was standing before him; he fixed his eyes on me very steadily: his eyes were small and grey; not very bright, but I dare say I should think them shrewd now: he had a hard-featured yet good-natured looking face.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76140.72An unsmiling, a searching, a meaning gaze it was.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70700.72He stood considering me some minutes; then added, "She looks sensible, but not at all handsome."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60070.72My head swam as I stood erect.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56820.72It was a discoloured face -- it was a savage face.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10510.71Miss Temple had looked down when he first began to speak to her; but she now gazed straight before her, and her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material; especially her mouth, closed as if it would have required a sculptor's chisel to open it, and her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50790.70This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31410.70No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77940.70he murmured; "the eye is well managed: the colour, light, expression, are perfect.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64200.70A wild look raised his brows -- crossed his features: he rose; but he forebore yet.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_520.70I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44310.70This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3790.70-- with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10940.70Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_93980.69Blind as he was, smiles played over his face, joy dawned on his forehead: his lineaments softened and warmed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4490.68HE, for it was a man, turned his head slowly towards where I stood, and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice, "Her size is small: what is her age?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12070.66They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's -- a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16430.66I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72120.66He was young -- perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87410.66Again he turned lividly pale; but, as before, controlled his passion perfectly.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36190.66"No," she continued, "it is in the face: on the forehead, about the eyes, in the lines of the mouth.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23590.66"The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20490.66and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86930.66He now turned quite from the moon and faced me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71890.66Her whole face seemed to me full of charm.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6260.66What sorrowful eyes you fix on me!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55700.66and how strangely your eyes glitter!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4670.66and what large prominent teeth!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36430.66"I like to observe all the faces and all the figures."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22070.66And what meaning is that in their solemn depth?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19140.64He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44290.63Two young ladies appeared before me; one very tall, almost as tall as Miss Ingram -- very thin too, with a sallow face and severe mien.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9940.90shaped head, the same low white forehead, and that slight depression of the corners of the mouth, which gave to the face an enchanting expression of melancholy.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3960.87Then he hastily felt the invalid’s pulse, and glanced furtively at the hectic spot that was burning on either emaciated cheek.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9950.84This expression had, with the unhappy mother, been height- ~ ened by the tearful glance of dark-gray eyes; but when the young girl lifted her darkly fringed eyelids, she disclosed sparkling eyes of dark-brown.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39830.83A slight colour appeared in the pale cheeks, extended to the forehead and deepened to aflush.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19660.83The Professor stood beside her with his eyes riveted upon the writhing limbs and the distorted face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10990.82A delicate colour flushed her pale cheeks, and her knit brows lent an expression of brooding melancholy to her face, which Felicitas had never seen there before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35330.81How pale your face grew beneath your coal-black curls!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17580.81In spite of the thick beard, the angry compression of his lips could plainly be seen.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12610.81His quiet passionless gaze rested searching] y upon the girl’s face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35400.81face and sly cunning lines about his mouth and around his eyes which looked out from under a low forehead crowned by straight thin hair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39080.79It seemed as if some gentle hand passed over his face, smoothing the wrinkles on his brow, while a half smile quivered about his lips.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1920.79The white face of his wife was suddenly coloured by a deep flush, and a sarcastic expression wreathed her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7130.79Felicitas glanced at him with flashing eyes, but did not open her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27270.79"But you are paler than you were—and those melancholy lines around your mouth seem to me more deeply graven than before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21850.79She felt herself blush crimson as she looked at him in anxious cou- fusion.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4770.77For the first time the little girl encountered his eyes,-—they were terrible eyes, serious, gloomy, without one ray in them of kindly tenderness.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2520.77His features were fine, and his complexion remarkably fair and clear, but he had a habit of resting his chin upon his breast and peering at you with his large eyes from under his eyebrows, which gave him a peculiar expression of cunning and slyness.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4490.76Both stood for a moment as if rooted to the spot, but an evil fire began to glow in the widow's eyes, her upper lip curled a little, showing one of her white teeth—there was something indescribably malignant in her expression.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37680.76A flaming blush suffused her cheek at these words.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34400.76A burning blush rose to Felicitas’ cheek.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28200.76The pure maidenly face flushed painfully.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15500.76Look closer at that pale face and odd hair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39070.75Suddenly he looked up into Felicitas’ beseeching brown eyes,-—what power those eyes had over the stern man!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28610.75and from beneath the thick eyebrows he shot lightning glances of displeasure, as his mother was speaking.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4660.75Impossible as it was for the features of this woman to express gentleness and tenderness, immovable as they appeared in their iron plaeidity, they could be wonderfully animated by hate and contempt.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_450.74She was very beautiful, this young creature, with her wealth of magnificent golden hair, and a commanding figure full of grace and dignity; but her lovely face was pale, ‘pale as death, people said, and when she lifted her darkly fringed eyelids, which, indeed, she did but seldom, a wonderfully touching tearful glance shot from the dark-gray eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8910.73As in the morning, a deep blush suffused her cheeks, and anger and grief, as upon the night before, changed the whole expression of the childish face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38760.73The first distrustful glance that she had ever seen in the steel gray eyes scanned her face—it was like the stab of a knife,—she crimsoned and cast down her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32330.73235 with her right hand commandingly extended, her pale cheeks sufl'used with a burning glow—-beautiful in her wrath as an avenging angel.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11230.73Majesty clothes her brow, and upon her lips blooms the serene smile of thoughtful creation She mixes her colours gravely, and paints her pic- tures with slow prccision—we follow the strokes of her pencil with silent joy—they are not bold and rash, but tender and full of grace.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4120.73She had been with him in his last moments, but had never dreamed that the red stream, which suddenly gushed from his lips, would end everything.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32360.73said Felicitas sternly, and her flaming glance rested full upon the countenance of the slanderer.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19100.73The recent angry flush had subsided, leaving only a delicate carmine tint on either softly-rounded cheek, and no one would have dreamed that the heightened brilliancy of the eyes which beamed in that beautiful face was the result of anything but some lofty ebullition of feminine enthusiasm.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4800.72But they had nothing in common, those lovely features, with their frame of light curls, and this head with straight, closely-cut hair, and the serious, pale, irregular profile.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7740.72’ The little girl silently turned her face away from him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43200.72A blush overspread cheeks and brow.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42480.72A slight colour suffused his face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30700.72he murmured,—and his face darkened porceptibly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28250.72Nor should I " she paused, but the blush still coloured her cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3890.70Hellwig turned round, a bright smile played about his lips.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37960.70VVhat an expression of satanic malice transformed those angelic features!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33160.70She cast a stolen glance at her foe, and was met by a look positively ferocious.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31060.70The Professor turned short round——his eyes flashed lightning.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30820.70The Professor hit his lips, and contracted his brows so that his eyes almost disappeared.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18380.70The handsome face of the young lawyer flushed to the roots of his hair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32600.69The Professor looked steadily at her, and an almost imperceptible smile hovered upon his lips, as, in spite of all her self-control, he saw her wince under that sting.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16270.69sion of her dark eyes and her compressed lips showed that she was suffering acute physical pain.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14200.69The cruel expression appeared on Madame’s features; her upper lip contracted as it used to do, showing one of the upper teeth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13800.69The steel gray eyes gazed fixedly at her face,they would detect the slightest prevarication, the truth must be told.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10190.69Felicitas answered not a word——but she compressed her beautiful lips, and gazed fixedly in the face of her critic.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14880.92The dazzling -light of the chandeliers fell upon his bare head, revealing distinctly every feature of the handsome face; the red flush was upon his brow, but his eyes gleamed with joyous surprise and undisguised delight.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20070.89he asked; and a flashing pair of dark-blue eyes looked surprise* The charming colour in her cheeks flushed her whole forehead to the roots of her hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9710.89They were lifted for one moment, and a demoniac gleam like a flash of lightning darted across to the Portuguese,——then they drooped again, while not a muscle moved in the livid countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10420.89Now, indeed, the skin of the face was yel- low and wrinkled, and the dark eyes gleamed in their large sockets like coals wellnigh burned out.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16010.89Helene’s cheeks glowed, and a ray of happiness shot from her eyes; but she said not a word, only drooping her face so as to conceal every sign of her inward agitation.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_670.88The invalid started up,—his pale face was suffused with a crimson flush, and his sparkling eyes were riveted upon the intruder, whom he had not observed before.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16220.88That small, thin face with irregular features and complexion like bronze nevertheless attracted one irresistibly by the piquaut, intelligent expression of these same features, and by the deep, half-veiled eyes, glowing with suppressed passion.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17270.87In terror she turned her colourless face towards him ; what a lovely, innocent, girlish expression there was in the large, frightened eyes !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56150.87In despair she passed her hand over her forehead, parting the brown curls so that a faint crimson scar was disclosed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6880.86She raised her head slightly, so that Elizabeth could see her face distinctly; it was round and pale, and at first sight by no means unprepossessing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33480.86Her lips parted in an enchanting smile, and the rosy flush that tinted her cheek at her last words became her charmingly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2630.86Now she turned round; a burning blush suddenly coloured her sallow cheek and as quickly faded.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7690.86As Kitty entered, she first opened her blue eyes wide with astonishment, then half dropped the lids in a keen, inquiring glance, while a sarcastic smile hovered upon her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54460.85How the un- furrowed brow shone, with the delicate blue veins show- ing above the temples !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8240.85The young girl’s bright eyes were riveted for a moment upon the face of the mocking speaker.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10470.85The flitting crimson came and went upon the invalid’s thin cheek, and tears glittered in her eyes, but she controlled herself.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60330.83An almost sunny smile for one moment chased away the expression of suffering that contracted his brows. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42600.83But her cheeks, that were usually a delicate rose-tint in colour, retained a crimson hue.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38470.83Much dejected, I went at last to Use, whose clear, keen eyes instantly detected the tears upon my eyelashes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7560.83Only a very observant eye could have detected the slight nervous twitching of the drooping eyelids.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19960.83She shuddered beneath those eyes which, usually so dull and expressionless, always burned with a peculiar fire when he looked at her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10750.83There certainly was a puzzled look in her pleasant blue eyes, but the delicate oval of her face was not in the least lengthened.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31060.83She opened her eyes, and there shone in their unearthly brilliancy a mixture of pain and irony.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8910.83There was something like unwelcome amazement in the gaze that now rested upon the delicate lips that spoke so calmly, and now sought to penetrate the depths of the eyes so fearlessly raised to his. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19610.82There were dark ridges around her eyes, and between her eyebrows there were two deep wrinkles in the delicate skin which gave a sullen expression to the face, but, in connection with certain lines around the mouth, lent an air of deep melancholy to her look.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41880.82The features were deadly pale, and distorted by a fiendish grin, while the fire of madness gleamed in the eyes that were riveted upon Elizabeth’s face.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52030.81Her eyes wandered smilingly from his face, and opened wide in amazement.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25530.81Mainau turned from him, and, standing close before Liana, tried to look into her eyes ; they were downcast.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17450.81Yes, her eyelids Were red with Weeping, but her eyes flashed indignantly upon the questioner.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14710.81He was so near - her that he could see her change colour, while the pained expression upon her face vanished on the instant. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46580.81She paused for a moment, and an expression of inextinguishable hatred distorted her countenance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37390.81He suppressed a contemptuous smile, for Helene’s eyes were riveted upon his lips.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17740.81In a moment the expression of anguish upon her countenance was changed to one of the bitterest anger.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41820.81She calmly met, with head proudly erect, his glance of fire.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38570.81He knitted his brows, and the lines about his mouth grew hard and pitiless.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31900.81An arch smile played about her lips and deepened the dimples in her cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28110.81A sneer hovered upon Flora’s lips, and vexation shone in her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24060.81Grave and silent, he looked down at the imploring figure; but he was pale, pale as death.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22160.81Dim as was the half light in the room, the pale face of the girl shone forth in it; her expression was one of great pain, and the eyes that had been said to shed no tears were turned veiled and sad upon the speaker.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6640.81There was something soldierly erect in his figure, while his handsome bearded face, embrowned by sun and air, expressed only a gentle gravity.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35940.79Did he read the strange mixture of disgust and a momentary attention in the expression of the beautiful pale face that was turned upon him?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5220.79And she turned her emaciated face towards the girl and looked at her from large and unnaturally -brilliant eyes, as if‘ to read her friend’s heart.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23690.79the bailiff asked, eying him with an odd sidelong glance, while a faint smile suddenly lit up his wrinkled features. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30040.79One strong blue vein stood out upon his pale forehead, his eyes flashed, and he involuntarily stamped his foot.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28170.79Intense vexation was expressed in the baroness’ countenance,—there was no need of the round, red spot on either cheek to show that she was angry.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51640.79A soft smile played about the pale lips; the face, white it seemed as the bandage about the brow, was transfigured for the moment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50250.79In the deep black, Liana looked so bloodless, so ashy pale.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48690.79For one instant a deep pallor overspread his handsome countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_320.79The little angry figure stood there alone for one moment, an ideally handsome .
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67640.79She turned hotly upon him, while tears of emotion were rolling down her cheeks. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6060.79And what a ghastly play of feature passed over her crimson face !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5780.79His small eyes sparkled, and regarded them with a tender ogle.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52590.79I had never seen anger flaming in those dark-blue eyes before " You shall not touch her !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43070.79I saw her face flush and the corners of her mouth twitch with indignation.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31420.79He recoiled ; his cheeks flushed, and his eyes shot fire. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5690.79Darkness came on so quickly that every eye was turned anxiously to the skies.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4090.79A menacing glance was riveted upon the young girl's face.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15480.79She gave him a sidelong glance from beneath her drooping eyelashes. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24200.79But never had his gaze rested upon Elizabeth with such glowing and passionate intentness.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19430.79Look at her eyes—they sparkle and glow as though all the fire of the Blocksberg were burning in them.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18810.79Elizabeth felt a burning blush suffuse her cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13200.79Elizabeth turned quickly round, blushing scarlet, but could see no one.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47940.79A dark blush of surprise crimsoned Flora’s cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_100.79His handsome features wore an expression of keen anxiety.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18700.78Involuntarily her glance fell upon the court chaplain, who moved slightly ; his eloquent, burning eyes were riveted upon her with a strange mixture of intensity and anxiety.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10480.78Elizabeth suddenly seemed to see the doctor’s intellectual face, with its searching glance, sarcastic smile, and the slightly contemptuous play of its finely-formed lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34860.78Then she started and turned round, her face still flushed with agitation; she was evidently in a very irritable frame of mind, for she frowned still more darkly, and her eyes flashed with anger.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6890.78Upon a closer view, the large blue eyes, that glittered beneath light eyelashes and elevated eyebrows as light, looked cold as ice, an expression in nowise softened by the supercilious lines about her mouth and nostrils, and by a broad, rather projecting chin.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25210.77The face of the duchess suddenly assumed the waxen hue that it had worn when first she had encountered Liana in the forest.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16270.77Her delicate lips were firmly closed, and the pale tint upon her velvet cheek did not deepen in colour.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10420.77She never moved, but, staring steadily into the lovely young face that bent above her, allowed the anodyne to be poured down her throat. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9540.77The flickering light played upon his features,—they looked perfectly composed, although the pallor of ‘agitation’ was still on his brown cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8800.77Her look was cold and cruel,—an expression often seen in a certain kind of light-blue eye, shaded by white eyelashes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24290.77Beneath his moustache the lips showed a delicate, almost feminine outline, and there was something boyish in the moulding of the brow about the temples, in the graceful, easy carriage of the head, and in the quick, melting fire of the eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21160.77For one moment a shadow rested upon her brow, those clear steel-gray eyes encountered her own so fearlessly, and the dewy freshness of that youthful face was not to be denied ; but a side-glance at Baron Mainau restored the sunny smile to her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52800.76Suddenly a shade passed over her brow, and she started. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34070.76190 depths of which her large eyes gleamed strangely. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31990.76He turned upon her, and his angry glance shot fire. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28070.76Liana's hot cheeks paled with agitation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27040.76A burning blush overspread Liana's face.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23700.76You misunder- stood me," he said, with a nervous quiver of the lip. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22570.76Her beautiful face now beamed with a triumph that transfigured it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21600.76Suddenly the smile on his face gave way to a look of terror. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19680.76A bitter smile passed across her charming face. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1780.76In a few moments she must appear blandly smiling again before the courtly throng outside.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1960.76and beard, and full of fire and dignity in his bearing and motions.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8870.76she asked, with a smile that became wonderfully Well her earnest, lovely face. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_600.76she went on eagerly, while a melancholy smile stole over his features. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5260.76She hung upon the girl's looks with an expression of devouring anguish.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9490.76You have your mother's eyes, but the Jacobsohn cast of features.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66780.76My pale face and evident depression distressed her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63600.76We were facing the mirror, into which involuntarily I cast a glance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39600.76for breath, her flashing eyes were riveted upon the speaker. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16840.76He turned round in the doorway with beaming eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10410.76At sight of our swollen eyes, he stood still in bewilderment. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15790.76The ‘little savages’ had grown into tall, graceful blondes. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15060.76Gisela’s pale cheeks grew still paler.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13950.76Gisela started, and again the blood rushed to her cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9830.76Again she stood erect, and there was a bitter smile upon her lips. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9560.76With eyes cast down, indeed, but in a very harsh and decided manner, she said, " You cannot see her."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28540.76She stood still and looked at him with an eager expression of delight on her face.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14790.76She started in terror, as he noted with malicious satisfaction. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30600.76As he saw her approach him thus, something of a joyful surprise lit up his countenance.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29890.76At these words she grew pale, and involuntarily stood still.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40730.76She might have been some automaton, but for the indignant light that flamed in her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32360.76Of course she will go with me," he said, coldly, but his eyes gleamed as with an angry pain.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27560.76She only seemed agitated, and in her eyes and in her voice there were traces of tears.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24680.76she asked, falteringly, but with her eyes intently fixed upon his face.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2270.76She had a sickly complexion, and her lips were bluish in hue.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15990.76she asked, coldly, a baleful fire glowing in her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1550.75He had grown a little pale ; but that fathomless glance of his sought her face in a kind of savage triumph.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5010.75Here, too, the same crimson light was diifused, tinging the invalid’s cheeks with a mock hue of health.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38390.75cried Helene, as, sitting upright she riveted her unnaturally bright eyes full upon him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30270.75He turned slowly towards her, and she felt that he continued to regard her steadfastly, but she was unable to lift her eyes to his.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25130.75She stood fastened to the spot with deadly terror, when suddenly Elizabeth, whom she had not seen, stood behind the assassin.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25560.75Her eyes scarcely met for an instant the eloquent gaze fixed upon her, but turned with an indescribable expression of longing towards the distant landscape. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6090.75Her beautiful Excellency stood speechless before her pitiless tormentor,—the flush faded from her cheeks, and her delicate nostrils began to tremble.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43630.75Those blue-veined, transparent lids would be raised once more, when the eye beneath was glazed, but the expression of rapture that was already fixed upon the half-open lips would go with them to the vault beneath the obelisk. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36740.75To Helene’s innocent, loving eyes, the lofty figure, slightly leaning forward, the face beneath the thick, light curls, rather suggested a thoughtful Apollo.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7210.74Something like a shade of displeasure flitted across the features of the baroness, and a close observer might have noticed a scornful contraction of her lips, but it was lost upon Elizabeth, whose attention was entirely absorbed by interest in the unfortunate little lady whose delicate silvery voice seemed to come fresh from the depths of her heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38510.74Henriette stared at the speaker like one dismayed, and the councillor cleared his throat and stroked his delicate moustache to conceal a slight sneer, while the doctor, whose face had hitherto maintained a rigid composure, smiled a faint smile of bitter contempt.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28510.74Her slender form seemed to dilate proudly, as he looked at her, in contrast with the graceful, undulating outline that characterized it, but the dark eyelashes almost rested upon her cheek; involuntarily 166 THE SECOXD WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10290.73Liana shuddered to her very soul at the expression in the large eyes raised to the boy in tender reproach and agonized entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8350.73His Excellency Was so wonderfully animated that there was not the slightest trace of the iron mask of the diplomatist in his bearing or in the smiling play of his features.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6980.73Did he not at that very moment reply to the charming gypsy’s gaze by so expressive a look that the lovely face blushed up to its thick brown curls?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13720.73His head drooped, and he looked up with a keen, searching glance from beneath his brows, contracted in a frown, into the face of the powerful man before him. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29380.73She raised her eyes, and although she felt her cheeks glow, she sustained unflinchingly the gaze which at first rested sternly upon her and then became indescribably gentle.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21100.73Helene cast a troubled glance at him; but this mirth cut Elizabeth to the soul,—she felt the greatest indignation stirring within her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47010.73she said, in a perfectly calm tone, but her breath came quick, and her finely pencilled eyebrows contracted so that two deep lines showed between them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47410.73Not so the expression of her eyes ; in them gleamed the wild fire of the angry, offended woman.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32590.73He stood before her, and encountered the burning glance of her eyes with a calm, almost an amused, air. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11620.73As it closed behind them, the man stood still, and seemed for a moment to seek expression for the thought he wished to con- vey.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58860.73He turned round ; I saw the gleam of Dagobert-s white forehead, and his eyes flashed as he saw me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14330.73contracted his eyebrows over his large brown eyes in a gaze of scrutiny; then he came directly towards me. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9500.73He looked as he spoke into her face, into the brown eyes that met his own in undeniable terror and perplexity.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26110.73There was a smile upon his face,—a quiet smile that had evidently escaped involuntarily from his very soul.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42730.73The little lady’s face was ashy-pale,—her despairing glance sought Hollfeld.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34140.73The sweet face beneath the dark curls smiles again now that death has touched it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2610.73A deep wrinkle appeared between his bushy eyebrows, and made his face dark and gloomy.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24360.73Beautiful as were the black eyes that were fastened upon her, Elizabeth was annoyed by their steady stare.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21600.73The dark lines in his brow did not disappear, and his look was gloomy as he still observed Elizabeth keenly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14900.73How quiet the eyes were now, which had seemed before to flash fire; his look, as it rested upon the baroness, was icy cold.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28890.73She tried to smile, but her ashy lips, as well as her whole pale, mocking face, seemed paralyzed to marble.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14390.73His aunt suddenly leaned from the window and looked him wonderingly in the face,—he was so strangely silent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10250.73He contracted his fine eyebrows, and cast from beneath them a dubious glance at her face.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43640.72Kitty was startled,—her beautiful sister’s strongly-marked profile looked so sharp and thin without the golden glory of the curls above her brow; for the first time she saw that Flora was no longer young, that at last her restless ambition had begun to grave deep lines in the lovely oval of her face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63080.72So she talked on, with a smile that deepened the lovely dimples in her cheeks, and parted her lips so as to show the perfectly uniform little teeth, white as mother-of- pearl.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46480.72A disdainful smUe played about her lips. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31250.72The shadow upon Mainau's brow had vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7720.72She looked up at him with her blue eyes swimming with tears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57170.72She looked up, and her cheeks flushed crimson with surprise.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55180.72My undisguised admiration was plainly to be seen, of course, in my face. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50350.72His face lighted up as with a sudden sunbeam. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31060.72n I had to laugh, although my eyelashes were wet with tears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21490.72A smile hovered around his mouth for an instant. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17980.72SJ opened her eyes wide.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29400.72she murmured, and hid her face upon his breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17830.72This she said with decision and a steadfast look into his angry eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17430.72he asked, half uneasily, half mockingly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38330.72Hollfeld’s eyes sought the ground.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36030.72A sickly smile still hovered upon her lips.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21070.72Such a lovely, blooming, young bride!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19590.72Elizabeth could see now that the girl had lately grown much thinner.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15960.72The baroness blushed scarlet; but she controlled herself.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6720.72She saw the colour mount darkly to his cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5760.72It was a characteristic group that met his eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5270.72A rebellious smile hovered upon her lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5030.72The young girl opened her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47950.72Her eyes sparkled: she bit her lip.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4460.72The young girl suppressed a smile.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44580.72A sarcastic smile flitted across his face.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39430.72But now her lip curled in a proud smile.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33680.72An ironical smile flitted across his features.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30910.72Kitty looked up with a strange gleam in her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24320.72he asked, so suddenly, so sharply, that she started involuntarily.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23510.72she muttered, angrily, through her shut teeth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16160.72A burning blush crimsoned her cheek.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10280.71At his touch the head was suddenly lifted, showing a small, emaciated, but beautiful face, the face of a woman.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46330.71Her gentle face was still pale with terror, and at Charlotte's words the lines about her mouth grew harsh and severe.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3150.71I glanced at Use ; she was looking on unconsciously, and her stern black eyes melted to an expression of pro- found sorrow and anxiety. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5350.71two flashing black eyes, appeared between its crimson folds, and gazed with consuming hatred at the girl, who was the centre of so much admiration. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22290.71The rigid expression had passed away from his features, but there was still the same inquisitorial look in his eyes, and his voice was not much gentler, as he asked: "What were you reading when it was my misfortune to interrupt you?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17080.71"His mouth is closed, but his eyes are wide open, and servility, malice, and hypocrisy quail before them and drop their masks."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5440.71The young girl started back in horror; the glance which had been fixed upon the lips of the speaker sought the ground.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40880.71As this conviction crept over her, her lovely features lost their usual mobility, and their expression grew stern and hard.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26290.71He scarcely looked at her,—he only glanced at the tender, quivering mouth, as if he did not wish to show how he was moved by her self-accusation; but across his face there flitted the smile which she knew so well.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14940.71Her small, pallid face looked ghostly in so theatric a costume, but her beautiful eyes shone with an almost unearthly fire.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8830.70The long, dark eyelashes were raised those were no " pale- blue, violet eyes, la La Valliere," a pair of large, dark gray orbs, intelligent, but now gloomily grave, looked full into THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7290.70But any one who could have looked into his face must have instantly confessed that nothing could be farther from this man’s soul at this moment than vanity, ——there wassuch settled gravity, such stern determination upon the frowning brow.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6410.70Oliveira bowed, without a Word; the lurid light of a torch fell upon his composed features, and cast upon the brown complexion an increased pallor.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22150.70What an angry expression there was upon the uncovered forehead, in the compressed lips, and in the eyes that flashed upon Hollfeld’s retreating figure as it vanished through the opposite door!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11030.70She had spoken with passionate emphasis; the pale marble tint of her Roman profile, seen clearly cut against the blue sky of spring, glowed with a gloomy fire; her eyes were full of disdain, her nostrils quivered nervously,—she was the very personification of burning impatience.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37840.70She turned hastily away, but paused before her husband, They stood face to face. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26880.70The housekeeper looked full in Liana's face, and her eyes were brimming with meaning. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19800.70Was it terror or shame that sent blush after blush across his withered cheek?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_980.70And yet, no l—-what base ingratitudel" He struck his forehead, and there was a happy gleam in his eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2770.70he asked the child, his eyes twinkling and a broad grin on his honest face. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3950.70Now and then another face would hover like a pale reflection upon the dim background of my memory.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9650.70Gisela had now leaned both hands upon its surface, and was gazing across at him with an ashy face.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7550.70What a contrast there was between his pallid, rigid face, and the features of the lovely Titania!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12030.70At sight of this gesture, a cold smile played about the lips of the Portuguese.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28160.70She gave him a hasty sidelong glance; he looked very grave and walked very slowly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41680.70His face grew livid, and his white teeth were buried in his underlip.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29680.70Elizabeth involuntarily looked round to discover what it was that caused his eyes to flash and glow so.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2590.70The thoughtful expression of Elizabeth’s face did not escape her mother’s notice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44250.70The girl’s glance rested gravely and searchingly upon his mobile features.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23390.70Flora sat there like some evil angel around whom was playing demoniac fire.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20490.70She turned slowly, and with an air of coarse irony, to the beautiful woman.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16610.70His air was courteous and composed, but Kitty had seen his eyes flash and his cheek crimson at Flora’s malicious words, and even now the colour in his face was deeper than usual,—he was by no means so calm and cheerful as he seemed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11970.69He was a tall, thin man, and must once, like all the Mainaus, have been handsome, save that the outlines of his features were somewhat too delicate for a man.