It would be better that you should first find out the nature of your father's proceedings." "Go, though, to the baron," implored Bernhard, "and if he remain silent, ask the young lady.

I have seen her," continued he; "I have kept it back from you as men will keep their dearest secret; now you shall hear it.

I have been more than once on the Rothsattel estate.

I know how fair she is, how proud her bearing, how noble her every gesture.

When she walks over the grass, she seems the queen of nature; an azure glory shines around her head; wherever she looks, all things bow down before her; her teeth like pearls, her bosom a bed of lilies," whispered he, and sank down on his pillows with folded hands and flashing eyes.
"He too!" cried Anton to himself.