The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
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Yonge Charlotte Mary. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. MASTER GOTTFRIED’S WORKSHOP
CHAPTER II. THE EYRIE
CHAPTER III. THE FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE DEBATEABLE FORD
CHAPTER IV. SNOW-WREATHS WHEN ’TIS THAW
CHAPTER V. THE YOUNG FREIHERR
CHAPTER VI. THE BLESSED FRIEDMUND’S WAKE
CHAPTER VII. THE SCHNEIDERLEIN’S RETURN
CHAPTER VIII. PASSING THE OUBLIETTE
CHAPTER IX. THE EAGLETS
CHAPTER X. THE EAGLE’S PREY
CHAPTER XI. THE CHOICE IN LIFE
CHAPTER XII. BACK TO THE DOVECOTE
CHAPTER XIII. THE EAGLETS IN THE CITY
CHAPTER XIV. THE DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE
CHAPTER XV. THE RIVAL EYRIE
CHAPTER XVI. THE EAGLE AND THE SNAKE
CHAPTER XVII. BRIDGING THE FORD
CHAPTER XVIII. FRIEDMUND IN THE CLOUDS
CHAPTER XIX. THE FIGHT AT THE FORD
CHAPTER XX. THE WOUNDED EAGLE
CHAPTER XXI. RITTER THEURDANK
CHAPTER XXII. PEACE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE ALTAR OF PEACE
CHAPTER XXIV. OLD IRON AND NEW STEEL
CHAPTER XXV. THE STAR AND THE SPARK
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The upper lattices of a tall, narrow window were open, and admitted the view, of first some richly-tinted vine leaves and purpling grapes, then, in dazzling freshness of new white stone, the lacework fabric of a half-built minster spire, with a mason’s crane on the summit, bending as though craving for a further supply of materials; and beyond, peeping through every crevice of the exquisite open fretwork, was the intensely blue sky of early autumn.
The lower longer panes of the window were closed, and the glass, divided into circles and quarrels, made the scene less distinct; but still the huge stone tower was traceable, and, farther off, the slope of a gently-rising hill, clothed with vineyards blushing into autumn richness. Below, the view was closed by the gray wall of a court-yard, laden with fruit-trees in full bearing, and inclosing paved paths that radiated from a central fountain, and left spaces between, where a few summer flowers still lingered, and the remains of others showed what their past glory had been.
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“The right of parents is with those that have done the duty of parents,” returned Johanna. “What said the kid in the fable to the goat that claimed her from the sheep that bred her up? I am ashamed of you, housefather, for not better loving your own niece.”
“Heaven knows how I love her,” said Gottfried, as the sweet face was raised up to him with a look acquitting him of the charge, and he bent to smooth back the silken hair, and kiss the ivory brow; “but Heaven also knows that I see no means of withholding her from one whose claim is closer than my own—none save one; and to that even thou, housemother, wouldst not have me resort.”
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