[In The Fire Of The Forge Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookIn The Fire Of The Forge Complete CHAPTER I 13/18
So he was assigned to us, and the whole suite of apartments in the back of the house, overlooking the garden, is now filled with Montforts, Montfort household officials, menservants, squires, pages, and chaplains. Montfort horses and hounds crowd our good steeds out of their stalls. Besides the twenty stabled here, eighteen were put in the brewery in the Hundsgasse, and eight belong to Countess Cordula.
Then the constant turmoil all day long and until late at night! It is fortunate that they do not lodge with us in the front of the house! It would be very bad for my mother!" "Then you can rejoice over the departure all the more cordially," observed Wolff. "It will hardly cause us much sorrow," Els admitted.
"Yet the young countess brings much merriment into our quiet house.
She is certainly a tireless madcap, and it will vex your proud sister Isabella to know that your brother-in-law Siebenburg is one of her admirers.
Did she not go to the Town Hall ?" "No," Wolff answered; "the twins have changed her wonderfully.
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