'See here, dearest aunty, the two boys passed half the night here, until my Aennchen's father gave them shelter.' 'Apparently he passes half or all the night in the open air everywhere,' said the margravine.
I glanced hurriedly over both faces.

The margravine was snuffing her nostrils up contemptuously.

The princess had vividly reddened.

Her face was luminous over the nest of white fur folding her neck.
'Yes, I must have the taste for it: for when I was a child,' said I, plunging at anything to catch a careless topic, 'I was out in my father's arms through a winter night, and I still look back on it as one of the most delightful I have ever known.

I wish I could describe the effect it had on me.