My Lady Rotha: A Romance
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Weyman Stanley John. My Lady Rotha: A Romance
CHAPTER I. HERITZBURG
CHAPTER II. THE COUNTESS ROTHA
CHAPTER III. THE BURGOMASTER'S DEMAND
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRE ALIGHT
CHAPTER V. MARIE WORT
CHAPTER VI. RUPERT THE GREAT
CHAPTER VII. THE PRIDE OF YOUTH
CHAPTER VIII. A CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER IX. WALNUTS OF GOLD
CHAPTER X. THE CAMP IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XI. STOLEN!
CHAPTER XII. NEAR THE EDGE
CHAPTER XIII. OUR QUARTERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE OPENING OF A DUEL
CHAPTER XV. THE DUEL CONTINUED
CHAPTER XVI. THE GENERAL'S BANQUET
CHAPTER XVII. STALHANSKE'S FINNS
CHAPTER XVIII. A SUDDEN EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XIX. IN A GREEN VALLEY
CHAPTER XX. MORE HASTE, LESS SPEED
CHAPTER XXI. AMONG THE WOUNDED
CHAPTER XXII. GREEK AND GREEK
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. MISSING!
CHAPTER XXV. NUREMBERG
CHAPTER XXVI. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XXVII. THE HOUSE IN THE CHURCHYARD
CHAPTER XXVIII. UNDER THE TILES
CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE HOUSE BY ST. AUSTIN'S
CHAPTER XXX. THE END OF THE DAY
CHAPTER XXXI. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XXXII. A POOR GUERDON
CHAPTER XXXIII. TWO MEN
CHAPTER XXXIV. SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XXXV. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY
CHAPTER XXXVI. A WINGLESS CUPID
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My Lady Rotha, Countess of Heritzburg in her own right, was at this time twenty-five years old and unmarried. Her maiden state, which seems to call for explanation, I attribute to two things. Partly to the influence of her friend and companion Fraulein Anna Max of Utrecht, who was reputed in the castle to know seven languages, and to consider marriage a sacrifice; and partly to the Countess's own disposition, which led her to set a high value on the power and possessions that had descended to her from her father. Count Tilly's protection, which had exempted Heritzburg from the evils of the war, had rendered the support of a husband less necessary; and so she had been left to follow her own will in the matter, and was now little likely to surrender her independence unless her heart went with the gift.
Not that suitors were lacking, for my lady, besides her wealth, was possessed of the handsomest figure in the world, with beautiful features, and the most gracious and winning address ever known. I remember as if it were yesterday Prince Albert of Rammingen, a great match but an old man. He came in his chariot with a numerous retinue, and stayed long, taking it very hardly that my lady was not to be won; but after a while he went. His place was taken by Count Frederick, a brother of the Margrave of Anspach, a young gentleman who had received his education in France, and was full of airs and graces, going sober to bed every night, and speaking German with a French accent. Him my lady soon sent about his business. The next was a more famous man, Count Thurn of Bohemia, he who began the war by throwing Slawata and Martinitz out of window in Prague, in '19, and paid for it by fifteen years of exile. He wore such an air of mystery, and had such tales to tell of flight and battle and hairbreadth escapes, that he was scarcely less an object of curiosity in the town than Tilly himself; but he knelt in vain. And in fine so it was with them all. My lady would have none of them, but kept her maiden state and governed Heritzburg and saw the years go by, content to all appearance with Fraulein Anna and her talk, which was all of Voetius and Beza and scores of other learned men, whose names I could never remember from one hour to another.
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'Have a care yourself, Master Jackanapes!' the same voice cried. 'This is a town meeting.'
'Town meeting!' I said, looking round contemptuously. 'Gaol-meeting, you mean, and likely to be a gaol-filling. But I do not speak to you; I leave that to the constable. For Master Klink, if he will take a word of advice, I will speak with him alone.'
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