Category: Historical Novels
Long ago, there lived in the city of Strassburg a worthy burgher named Christian Dasipodius. Very highly esteemed was this man by his fellow-citizens, and there were few among them who had not an approving word for him. This was a little remarkable, inasmuch as Christian was b...
Long ago, there lived in the city of Strassburg a worthy burgher named Christian Dasipodius. Very highly esteemed was this man by his fellow-citizens, and there were few among t...
2. CHAPTER II.Two hundred years earlier than this time, the great architect Erwin von Steinbach had enlarged and beautified Strassburg Cathedral, and at about the same date, a clever artifice...
3. CHAPTER III.Could it be favour and prejudice which blinded the eyes of Sabina von Steinbach, the Burgomaster’s only child, to the attractions of her exquisite cousin Otto? Really Otto found...
4. CHAPTER IV.There was, however, a third person concerned in their wooing, a very important person too—the Burgomaster; and it was doubtful if he would look favourably on the plan the lovers...
5. CHAPTER V.It was marvellous what sterling advice that lumbering old piece of middle-aged machinery gave Sabina von Steinbach, for it actually anticipated the very words of her lover himse...
6. CHAPTER VI.When the good Strassburgers are asked who built their magnificent cathedral, they are apt to say that it was Erwin von Steinbach, and that what he left unfinished, was completed...
7. CHAPTER VII.Wolkenberg was distressed and annoyed; in the first place, this woman had stolen from him a secret which he would rather have cut his own skilful right hand off, than have let s...
8. CHAPTER VIII.It was a sad day for the monks of Saint Thomas, when they bore their brother to his quiet grave in the little grass-grown God’s-acre attached to their chapel. The Bishop and his...
9. CHAPTER IX.Radegund stood for a while gazing silently down on the man at her feet, and in her eyes was such a strange gleam of mingled love and hate and triumph, that it was hard to determ...
10. CHAPTER X.Meantime the new Horologe was making rapid progress. That is, it was making rapid progress considering that it was a Horologe of many parts—no less, indeed, than nine. “Herein,”...
11. CHAPTER XI.Meantime Radegund, on leaving the flustered sacristan, made her way straight to the Bishop’s Palace, and demanded an audience of the chaplain. It was growing late, and the good...
12. CHAPTER XII.Next morning, as usual, Brother Prudentius came to unlock the cathedral doors. Utterly beyond the power of words would it be to describe the Sacristan’s horror at finding his do...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Supper is just over in the Burgomaster’s house. The table is not yet cleared, and the ruddy wine lying low in the silver flagon gleams in the soft firelight, while the jaws of t...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Sabina watched her father and her lover cross the courtyard, and pass out through the little wicket door, which the Burgomaster carefully locked behind him, then she listened un...
15. CHAPTER XV.Bruno Wolkenberg lived in a comfortable roomy house, whose exterior well befitted the position which he had won for himself in the city’s estimation. If anyone had the mischance...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The surgeon rose as Dasipodius entered, and bade him a kindly welcome, though, perhaps, a thought less hearty than usual. There had of late come into their friendship—one which...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The house in the Dom Platz inhabited by Radegund von Steinbach and her brother Otto, was no modern sixteenth century edifice. It had been built more than two hundred years earli...