A Noble Name; or, Dönninghausen

"Although this letter cannot start on its way to you for a week, I must tell you before the rest of the world of the astounding change that has taken place in my life. A few day...

Otto obeyed his grandfather's commands, handed in his resignation, and was shortly established as a volunteer assistant in the administration of Count Klausenburg's model estate...

This year also Hildegard and Hedwig found a pretext for omitting the Christmas visit to Doenninghausen. Thus on the afternoon of Christmas day only the old brother and sister, w...

In Doenninghausen they were looking for Johann Leopold's return. He had not informed his relatives of the precise day upon which it would take place, for he wished to avoid all...

When Johanna reached Doenninghausen, old Martin informed her that Squire Otto had been waiting for her a long while. For a moment she gazed at the old man, as if she had not und...

"I must confess, my dear Ludwig, that I laughed heartily over your last letter,--that is, over the lecture at the end of it. Nevertheless, you are right, and I will pay it all h...

The first days of March had come. The Freiherr wished to ride to the saw-mill, and asked Johanna to go with him; but, just as they had mounted their horses, a farmer arrived to...

The festival was over. The last guests had taken their departure, and as they issued shivering into the cold air of the autumn night, criticism, and that not of a very genial ki...

The Freiherr applied himself more diligently than ever to the administration of his extended estates, but the strictest attention to his work did not do away for him with the se...

Johanna had thought that the worst was over when she took her departure from Doenninghausen; and, indeed, the first days and nights that she spent by her sister's bedside were o...

When at last she turned to go home, Otto came walking quickly towards her from the castle. He looked annoyed, and asked, as he offered her his arm, "Where have you been so long?...

"Do not be angry, dear grandpapa," she said, with an air of arrogant ease quite her own. "It was my fault that we stayed so long; I had not seen the Klausenburgs for an age, and...

Christmas-eve had arrived. As was the custom, the festival for old and young at Doenninghausen took place in the late afternoon, before the principal meal of the day, and even w...

At the window of a luxuriously-furnished dressing-room a young girl was seated sewing, murmuring verses the while to herself with an absorbed air. All around her lay various stu...

Johanna could not carry her resolve into execution. The following morning she was busy until late in replacing by order the disarray produced by the birthday fete, and when her...

It was not until after several unsuccessful attempts that Otto had completed this epistle. Johanna's proposal had terrified him. The mere idea of the storm which she would so bo...

A year and a half had passed since Johanna first went to live in 'Terrace-Cottage,' near the Kahlenberg Thor. It was the close of a gray December day; she could not see to write...

Johanna brought the _parure_ to her aunt. "He will not refuse to accept aid from you," she said. Then they sat at table conversing upon indifferent subjects, and the same talk w...

It was a sad New Year's day for Doenninghausen. Instead of the double celebration, with its gay anticipations for the future, there were weary anxious hours beside a sick-bed. J...

Johanna accompanied Helena's messenger to the village. Her longing to see Lisbeth lent wings to her feet, and thrust into the background all questions as to how she should condu...

Again the days passed calmly and quietly at Doenninghausen, but they wore a different aspect from those which had preceded Christmas. Then the Freiherr had been the centre aroun...

Nearly two years had passed; it was the 2d of November, and all Doenninghausen was astir. The Freiherr's eightieth birthday was to be celebrated, and as the sun shone bright and...

When the next morning Johanna went to her window, she could not repress an exclamation of delight. Her room looked from a gable of the castle out into the park. In front of it a...

The Freiherr had bought Tannhagen, and had acceded to Otto's entreaty that the marriage might take place at the end of May. There was much to do before then to make the 'old bar...

Not until Johanna was once more alone did she appreciate the extent of the mischief wrought by Batti. If he were capable of such conduct after offering her shelter and protectio...

"... I have been here just a fortnight to-day, and feel entirely at home. You cannot fancy how, after the sorrow and agitation through which I so lately passed, I am soothed and...

In the large three-windowed morning-room of Castle Doenninghausen the old Freiherr was walking to and fro, smoking his long pipe, as was his custom always after breakfast, his h...

The evening passed without any mention by the Freiherr of Otto's note; Johann Leopold's letter was the absorbing topic. Magelone breathed more freely; perhaps, after all, her gr...

Johanna was much agitated. Again she felt bitterly her separation from Doenninghausen, and she was also suddenly assailed by anxiety with regard to her future. The young man was...

Immediately after her father's death, Johanna had received an affectionate letter from Ludwig, and her grandfather's note was scarcely read before a second budget from Lindenbad...

When the Freiherr heard of Johanna's departure, he had for the moment no thought save of the insult it offered to his authority. But when his first anger had passed away, he sai...

Batti made no opposition to Johanna's plans further than was demanded by courtesy; in fact, he was glad not to have opposite him at every meal her dark, serious eyes, in which h...