Stories by English Authors: Germany

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Коллектив авторов. Stories by English Authors: Germany

THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY, By Beatrice Harraden

KOOSJE: A STUDY OF DUTCH LIFE, by John Strange Winter

A DOG OF FLANDERS, by Ouida

MARKHEIM, by Robert Louis Stevenson

QUEEN TITA’S WAGER, by William Black

I – FRANZISKA FAHLER

II – ZUM “GOLDENEN BOCK”

III – DR. KRUMM

IV – CONFESSIO AMANTIS

V – “GAB MIR EIN’ RING DABEI”

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Her name was Koosje van Kampen, and she lived in Utrecht, that most quaint of quaint cities, the Venice of the North.

All her life had been passed under the shadow of the grand old Dom Kerk; she had played bo-peep behind the columns and arcades of the ruined, moss-grown cloisters; had slipped up and fallen down the steps leading to the grachts; had once or twice, in this very early life, been fished out of those same slimy, stagnant waters; had wandered under the great lindens in the Baan, and gazed curiously up at the stork’s nest in the tree by the Veterinary School; had pattered about the hollow-sounding streets in her noisy wooden klompen; had danced and laughed, had quarrelled and wept, and fought and made friends again, to the tune of the silver chimes high up in the Dom – chimes that were sometimes old Nederlandsche hymns, sometimes Mendelssohn’s melodies and tender “Lieder ohne Worte.”

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He followed his housekeeper down the chilly, marble-flagged passage into the kitchen, where he never went for months together – a cosey enough, pleasant place, with a deep valance hanging from the mantel-shelf, with many great copper pans, bright and shining as new gold, and furniture all scrubbed to the whiteness of snow.

In an arm-chair before the opened stove sat the rescued girl – a slight, golden-haired thing, with wistful blue eyes and a frightened air. Every moment she caught her breath in a half-hysterical sob, while violent shivers shook her from head to foot.

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