The dead tryst

On an evening in summer before the late siege of Paris, three ladies--one a matron of mature years, the other two both young and handsome girls, a brunette and a blonde--were se...

A week after this, a drochski deposited a smart-looking young officer, in the uniform of the 95th Thuringian regiment--blue with red facings and silver epaulettes, spike-helmet...

A week had passed away at Frankenburg, and the subject of the young Count's return--that event so dreaded by poor Herminia, from motives of delicacy, perhaps--had not been resum...

That night, at the very time the three gentlemen were in the smoking-room busy with their china-bowled pipes, and with silver tankards of beer before them--Heinrich full of happ...

Strong though the sentiment of friendship that existed between him and Heinrich, Charlie shrunk from making a confidant of him, as he knew but too well that his aristocratic pre...

Amid the pure satisfaction arising from the knowledge that Ernestine loved him, and the natural anxiety to discover how she was ever to be his wife, there was fated to come to C...

The Baron had been driven home to Aix in his britzka, promising to return for some final arrangements on the morrow, when he hoped to find the health of the Grafine restored; pr...

The carriage deposited Charlie Pierrepont at an hotel in Aix-la-Chapelle, where he meant to remain for a little to make some attempt to see Ernestine once more--to arrange, if p...

Eagerly did Charlie Pierrepont await the arrival of the Brieftrager, or letter-carrier, who brought him a brief note from Heinrich, saying that he meant to take his sister for a...

Such were the cries that rang along the line of march, when on the 1st of August the various columns of the German army began to meet those which left Paris shouting 'To Berlin!'

For a time the preparations for her marriage had gone on openly--though Ernestine, in her tenderness of heart and reluctance to wound one she loved so well, made no reference to...

It was no false alarm that, as related in a preceding chapter, made the advanced sentinels of the 95th, all hardy fellows from the Thuringerwald, open fire in quick succession.

In talking over the stirring events of the past day, Captain Schönforst sat drawing out his fair fly-away whiskers to their full length, and then stuffing them into his mouth, a...

The events of the war succeeded each other with frightful speed. Marshal MacMahon's spirited address to the army and his promise, 'with God's help, soon to take a brilliant reve...

A few days after the Thuringians and others advanced from the Moselle, the quiet family in the old Schloss of Frankenburg assembled as usual at breakfast. The old butler had cut...

We have said that on the 13th of August the Prussian advanced guard was at Pont-à-Mousson. The following day saw them defiling, with drums beating, colours flying, and bayonets...

The night passed over quietly, and without alarm; but with dawn of day came an officer of Uhlans, attended by a trumpeter, flying at full speed along the line of advanced posts,...

Ignorant that his friend Pierrepont had fallen--and a knowledge thereof would have served the latter but little--Heinrich, in his present capacity of adjutant, had to keep at hi...

And now to account for the mysterious disappearance of Charlie Pierrepont, which the Herr Doctor could only account for by supposing that in the restlessness of his agony, or de...

As the reader may suppose, some time elapsed ere the quiet little household at Frankfort realized--they could not for long recover from--the catastrophe recorded by the German p...

The passage of the ball had seriously injured him internally; thus he was long in recovering, and the winter of the year was almost at hand ere he could venture to travel; but i...

At last the wished-for time came when he was to set forth on that walk which--he fondly, ardently, and tenderly hoped--was to end in _her_ presence; but, as he walked down the l...