Selected Tales from Tales of a Traveller (Classic Reprint)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...though her gentle nature did not seem 1: calculated to harbor any such angry inmate. "He saw me weep!" said she, with a sudden mantling of the cheek, 'and a swelling of the throat, --"but no matter!--no matter!" And so saying, she threw her white arms across the 15 window-frame, buried her face in them, and abandoned herself to an agony of tears. She remained lost in a revery, until the sound of her father's and Casper's voices in the adjoining room gave token that the party had retired for the night. The lights gleaming from window 20 to window showed that they were conducting the princess to her apartments, which were in the opposite wing of the inn; and she distinctly saw the figure of the nephew as he passed one of the casements. She heaved a deep, hard-drawn sigh, and was about 25 to close the lattice, when her attention was caught by words spoken below her window by two persons who had just turned an angle of the building. "But what will become of the poor young lady?" said a voice, which she recognized for that of the servant-30 woman. "Pooh! she must take her chance, ' from old Pietro. was the reply "But cannot she be spared?" asked the other, entreatingly; "she's so kind-hearted!" "Cospetto! what has got into thee?" replied the other, petulantly; "would you mar the whole business 5 for the sake of a silly girl?" By this time they had got so far from the window that the Polonaise could hear nothing further. There was something in this fragment of conversation calculated to alarm. Did it relate to herself?--and if so, what was this impending danger:0 from which it was entreated that she might be spared? She was...