I was picking hazelnuts from the bushes in the park of the Nameless Castle, when I heard a window open.

I looked up, and saw in the open sash a face the like of which I have never seen, even in a picture." "Ah!" ejaculated the baroness.

"Tell us what is she like.

Come nearer to me." The clerk, however, was too bashful to leave his place, whereupon the baroness rose and took a seat by his side.
"She has long, curling black hair," he went on.

"Her face is fair as a lily and red as a rose, her brow pure and high, with no sign of the branding-iron.