You, Mr.Thostrup," added she, with a most obliging manner, "I know so well from Wilhelm's letters, that we are no strangers.

The gentlemen are acquainted with each other!" "I accept the invitation," said the Kammerjunker, "and I will now show you into what a gallop I can put my steed! It is Carl Rise, [Translator's Note: Name of one of the heroes in Waldemar the Conqueror, a romance by Ingemann.] as you see, young lady--you called him so yourself!" "Yes, ride forward," said Sophie, smiling.

"By that means you will oblige my sister.

She might otherwise be quite frightened, did she see such a mighty caravan approach the house, did she had not properly prepared the dinner-table." "As my gracious young lady commands!" said the rider, and sprang forward.
The country became more woody; the road passed various small lakes, almost overgrown with water-lilies and shaded by old trees; the old-fashioned, indented gable-ends of the hall now peeped forth.

They drove through an avenue of wild chestnut-trees; the stone pavement here threatened to smash the carriage axles.