[The Pilgrims Of The Rhine by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pilgrims Of The Rhine CHAPTER XXI 1/3
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VIEW OF EHRENBREITSTEIN .-- A NEW ALARM IN GERTRUDE'S. HEALTH .-- TRARBACH. ANOTHER time our travellers proceeded from Coblentz to Treves, following the course of the Moselle.
They stopped on the opposite bank below the bridge that unites Coblentz with the Petersberg, to linger over the superb view of Ehrenbreitstein which you may there behold. It was one of those calm noonday scenes which impress upon us their own bright and voluptuous tranquillity.
There stood the old herdsman leaning on his staff, and the quiet cattle knee-deep in the gliding waters. Never did stream more smooth and sheen than was at that hour the surface of the Moselle mirror the images of the pastoral life.
Beyond, the darker shadows of the bridge and of the walls of Coblentz fell deep over the waves, checkered by the tall sails of the craft that were moored around the harbour.
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