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THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN. 229
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
they slept , and armed with , tlie German lady ' s inseparable companions of the slumbering , her knitting innocents * pins , , lifted and pressed the long down * fair the locks cruel from wires the till temp their les
d sharp one , and points seeming had p l ierced y not to a trace the very remained brain to . show The deadl what y hand deed had was ht itbut whether she had been unconsciously watched , or ,
wroug ; the racked foul by crime the pangs was discovered of conscience and she thoug betrayed h the herself murderess , by some met mean no s
harsher doom in this world th , an that of being imprisoned for life whenever wander hy her kindred for , therefore centuries , her , sp one irit up of on when her centuries it race left was the still d bod ying up y on the was the ordinary condemned earth be death ; and to
of mortals , the unhappy shade , till its penance should accomplished , would still come to see and envy a blessedness denied to itself
. But neither was this tradition by any means perfectly satisfactory , for the Prussians are both a patriotic and a loyal race , and they
were not willing to believe that a Grerman , much less a Hohenzollern , could have perpetrated so unnatural a crime as that imputed to the
be legendary comparison ing agreeable spirit's Countess a app to grim e think arance ; sort and of at of thoug their the comp death h rulers liment the of reason being to her them descendant assi always , yet gned it attended for s would , imp the lied hardl suffer by b y y a -
over g and hostl happ the y impersonation royal ily the house conclusion is of far crime that from it and is inevitable punishment so horrible . Away , a guilt bein then g and that remors with broods so e ,
princes befitting unhallowed to that be . a under p spectre ious b the , eli and ef care of let the of it more g olden ive p exalted time lace to which beings a _g-entler held spirits its shade honoured of , mor good e
, legen rather whose d happy of one the of ori missio the gin tenderest n of was the White to host protect Lad -stories y and is no ever bless tale told . of The and horror last as , best but the
Grerman narrator well remarks g " If it was still superstition , that it gave and birth so long to this as we story share , yet those it , was feelings love of and a loyalty former th age at cradled though _,
our ; more enlightened understandings can distinguish between , myth , and historyyet we shall still at least be glad to hear what our
, forefa Failing thers then were g to lad gain to believe a satisfactory . _" lanation of the White
exp event 3 Lady's which presence had in taken the S lace chloss there at , B we erlin may from seek the a personal history of rather any p
bitants than a , local and following derivation , their and turning history back from int the o p remote lace to ages its inha and - zollerns in intimate alliance
b seemed another y blood so land and to deli , marri we ght age find in with endowing the a Hohen race with of all _Kosenburgs her best , g whom ifts that Fortune their
ever waxing prosperity came to be attributed to supernatural
The White Ghost Of Berlin. 229
THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN . 229
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/13/
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