Legends of Switzerland

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H. A. Guerber. Legends of Switzerland

Legends of Switzerland

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Legends of Switzerland

LEGENDS OF GENEVA

LEGENDS OF VAUD AND VALAIS

FRIBOURG

LEGENDS OF NEUCHÂTEL

BERN

LEGENDS OF SOLEURE

BASEL

AARGAU

THE FOREST CANTONS

TESSIN

SCHAFFHAUSEN

LEGENDS OF ZÜRICH

LEGENDS OF ZUG

THURGAU

ST. GALL AND APPENZELL

GLARUS AND GRISONS

Index

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H. A. Guerber

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Striding out of his wife’s room, Grimoald then made all his arrangements. By his orders, the babe was carried to the turret, and Ermance covered with a sheet as if she were dead. Then a coffin was brought into the room by servants, who fancied their mistress had died of grief at losing her fourth child too. But during the night, Raymond, Grimoald’s trusted henchman, put some stones into this coffin, nailed down the lid, and secretly conveyed his mistress to the fourth tower, which, like all the rest, then communicated with his own dwelling by secret passageways.

Years now passed by, during which Ermance devoted all her thoughts to her last child, for her husband had made Raymond tell her that the other little girls were all dead. From a narrow window high up in the wall, she caught a glimpse of her funeral procession; but although she often saw her husband ride in and out of the castle yard, she never beheld a woman beside him, for now that his cruelty was known, no one would consent to marry him.

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