The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

On one side was the whole army, from among whose banners they had wrested their own; on the other were two rivers, the Danube and the March, and beyond them a mountain range, th...

Richard lost no time in sending to his mother from Vienna a full account of his varied experiences. Her reply was supplemented by the arrival of her steward and his wife, who in...

JenA' had of late made his abode in the Plankenhorst house, having formally installed himself there in the room of the footman, who had gone to join the insurgents at the barric...

Through the unlighted streets of Vienna a carriage was slowly making its uncertain way by night. The gas-mains had been wrecked,--that was one of the results of the glorious day...

In a splendid hall formed entirely of malachite--its slender columns hewn each from a single block and resembling tropical tree-trunks, its niches filled with rare exotic plants...

"The King of Hungary" was, at the time of our narrative, one of the finest hotels in Vienna, and much frequented by aristocratic Hungarian travellers and by Hungarian army offic...

As Richard made his way homeward, he seemed to himself to be riding on a winged steed. He was entirely satisfied with the issue of that day's adventure. Reviewing in imagination...

The night after the battle A-dAśn and Richard passed in a neighbouring village, and both were engaged until morning in restoring such order as they could among the defeated troops.

The post-prandial orator was in the midst of his toast, the champagne-foam ran over the edge of his glass and trickled down his fat fingers, his lungs were expanded and his voca...

A whole nation's gaze was turned toward the fortress of Buda. There it stood, weak when it came to self-defence, yet capable of working fearful destruction in case of attack. Fr...

After a troubled night's rest JenA' rose and, telling his servant that he should not return until late in the evening, betook himself to the Plankenhorst residence, thinking thu...

"Aranka, my dear girl, if you are looking for your father, you will look in vain; he won't come back. My husband has just received a letter from Pest. He says your dear father's...

The Plankenhorst family in Vienna was an entirely respectable one, although its name lacked the prefix which denotes nobility. Nevertheless the widow was honoured with the title...

One evening, after the habitual frequenters of the Plankenhorst house had taken their departure, as Alfonsine was undressing with the help of her maid, she turned to the latter...

The governor plenipotentiary was suffering with a splitting headache, which at times made him inclined to believe that all the bullets he had sent through his victims' heads wer...

At an early hour the white feathers and the black--the badges of the Progressive and the Conservative parties respectively--began to appear. But not only were white and black fe...

It was the evening of the thirteenth of August. The Hungarians had that day laid down their arms. A-dAśn Baradlay sat at an open window in the fading twilight, writing letters t...

It was dark when Richard recovered consciousness. At first the gloom seemed to him like something dense and heavy pressing against his head, and when he raised his hand he was s...

The dawn found A-dAśn alone on the wide heath,--a bare and desolate plain before him, where nothing but earth and sky met the view, except that in the distance the faint outline...

Richard entered the Plankenhorst house with the ease and freedom of a man visiting old friends. He did not note the expression of amazement and terror--as if at sight of a ghost...

Meanwhile the Hungarian army had advanced to meet the enemy; but being ill officered and poorly drilled, with no experience whatever of actual fighting, it was easily routed. Th...

The baron's funeral took place a week later. The funeral sermon was very long, and the baroness wept through it all with a grief as unaffected as that of any peasant widow in th...

It was no longer a secret, but was in everybody's mouth, that six weeks after the funeral there was to be a betrothal ceremony in the Baradlay house, and the latter was, they sa...

Three thousand six hundred feet above the sea-level, on a height of the Carpathian mountain range, a convivial party, consisting mostly of army officers, was enjoying itself wit...

The Plankenhorst parlours were even on that day filled with their usual frequenters; but instead of piano-playing and gossip, entertainment was furnished by the distant report o...

In the rainy autumn days the Baradlay family removed from KAśrAśs Island to Nemesdomb. The latter was no longer a hospital: the patients had been elsewhere provided for, and all...

A-dAśn could not persuade himself that Boksa had done him a kindness in bringing him home. It was a time of torturing suspense for all the family. The Austrian general had been...

Prince WindischgrA¤tz's latest despatches had brought news of a decisive engagement in the Royal Forest near Isaszeg. At seven o'clock in the evening the ban[5] had been on the...

The poplar trees on KAśrAśs Island are clothing themselves with green, while yellow and blue flowers dot the turf. The whole island is a veritable little paradise. It forms the...

"Did you appear during the March uprising at the head of the Hungarian deputation that was sent to Vienna, and did you there address the people in language calculated to stir th...

The Royal Forest lies on the left bank of the RAikos, near Isaszeg. Three highroads lead through it, and all three unite at Isaszeg, which thus forms the gateway to Pest.

Some one was expected at the castle: a letter had been received from A-dAśn--this time written by his own hand and mailed at Lemberg--announcing in advance his early arrival. In...

But had JenA' held no communication with his brother Richard before his death? Yes; Richard was a prisoner in the same building, and it was fitted with a telegraph which communi...