Feudal tyrants; or, The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans, volume 1 (of 4)

The real name is _Toggenburg_; but as this would have sounded harsh in English ears, I have taken the liberty of softening it a little; and in several parts of this work I have...

I stood silent, and listened, and looked; but in truth the speaking portraits of these females, the most lovely and excellent of their day, and the interesting fragments of thei...

Ethelbert of Carlsheim, he who, during whole years that my uncle sought to obtain his acquaintance, was never to be found; he, who even now that they were at length known to eac...

It was at this moment, that a sudden noise in the court of the Castle interrupted our work and our discourse. We sprang from our seats: the trampling of horses would have led us...

I opposed this determination of Count Leopold; but my husband did not second me. He saw, that this arrangement was greatly to his advantage; and I had already found on several o...

The Castle, as I before stated, was built on the summit of a lofty rock, whose point appeared designed as a mark for the assaults of all the four winds of heaven. Storms here we...

The measures adopted for our rescue by these two honest Helvetians is easy to be guest from what has been already related. Henric brought with him a small band of faithful frien...

Edith possest still more information respecting Count Ethelbert’s family. She knew, that by some means or other the news of Lucretia’s sufferings had at length reached her son i...

—“There are few hearts,” said Guiderius, “so hardened as to resist the tears which flow from the eyes of women, or the voice of God when it speaks from the lips of his servants....