[The Burgomaster’s Wife Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Burgomaster’s Wife Complete CHAPTER XVIII 7/13
I don't want to be an evil prophet, but you surely remember these words.
What a wild, careless thing I was! Then a day came, that made a complete revolution in my whole nature." "Did a false love wound you ?" asked Maria modestly. "No, except the false love of another," replied Henrica bitterly.
"When I was a child this fluttering heart often throbbed more quickly, I don't know how often.
First I felt something more than reverence for the one-eyed chaplain, our music-teacher, and every morning placed fresh flowers on his window, which he never noticed.
Then--I was probably fifteen--I returned the ardent glances of Count Brederode's pretty page. Once he tried to be tender, and received a blow from my riding-whip. Next came a handsome young nobleman, who wanted to marry me when I was barely sixteen, but he was even more heavily in debt than my father, so he was sent home.
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