[In The Fire Of The Forge Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookIn The Fire Of The Forge Complete CHAPTER XI 6/22
Such a heart! Such friendly kindness! And to think that she interposed so graciously for you--you, Sir Heinz, to whom she showed the favour of combing your locks, as if you were already her promised husband, and who afterwards, for another's sake, left her at the ball as if she wore a fern cap and had become invisible.
I saw the whole from the musician's gallery.
True, the somnambulist is marvellously beautiful." But the knight interrupted him by exclaiming so vehemently: "Silence!" that he paused. Both walked on without speaking for some distance ere Heinz began again: "Even though I live to grow old and grey, never shall I behold aught more beautiful than the vision of that white-robed girlish figure on the stairs." True and steadfast Biberli sighed faintly.
Love for Eva Ortlieb held his master as if in a vise; but a Schorlin seemed to him far too good a match for a Nuremberg maiden who had grown up among sacks of pepper and chests of goods and, moreover, was a somnambulist.
He looked higher for his Heinz, and had already found the right match for him.
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