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L THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN. 233
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
an accomplished scholar as well as a man deeply learned iii iritual loreand who had hoped from the first that the spirit
mi enable sp ght have him shown , to trace herself her ori to g him in , having in the gained tower , this on , purpose clue , was to
encouraged to the most diligent research , soon rewarded _Tby the discovery of her whole history .
It appeared that Perchta or Prechta , the somewhat harsh ancient form of the name now written Berthahad been married about the
, end of the fourteenth century to Matthias von Rosenburg . Lovely in person , this lady was yet more so in disposition , and therein very
unlike her husband , a wild , bad man , whose extravagant excesses grieved his gentle wife to the heart ; till having long borne with
him in silent meekness , she at last determined to try the effect of remonstrance . " Have you not sworn" said she , " to be true to
, me , and yet must I , who am so nobly born , share my husband with liht wanton ? And not only are you yourself perjured , but
every you make g me so likewise ; for how can I continue to love and honour you , when the body which Grod gave you to be a temple for
your Immortal soul , you debase to be an instrument of all evil ? If despise meyet fear the vengeance of God , which ,
longyou suffering though , He be , is already ripening to overtake you , for the life are leading can have no blest end . " This
admonition was you not without some effect , and Rosenburg for a time reformed ; but soon after , meeting- some of his boon companions ,
they , -while ridiculing . him for submitting to a purgatory before the time , by giving up his pleasures at the will of a wife , yet
invited him , even though lie were become too pious to continue associating with such reprobates , at least to agree to one
farewell feast together , since their paths were now to part for ever . He could not withstand the temptation .. The charms of the banquet ,
combined with the raillery of his companions , soon scattered all his good resolutionsand on his return he began to upbraid his wife ,
telling her , " Your ,. preaching brings me into contempt with all the worldLearn henceforth that you are not my house-chaplainbut
. , my housewife , and that it is not your place to tell me what I shall dobut to listen to what I command you , and to obey it . " From
that , time forward poor Perchta had the added trouble of not only seeing her husband re-commence all his evil habits , but of being
ill-treated by Mm in various ways , yet bore her hard fate with the meekness and patience of an angel , or rather of a true German
wife German ; for wives we know too not often how hav angels e been mi _; ght and behave found were her they only tried earthly as
consolation in devoting herself to the education of her son TJlrich . After some years her persecutor _' s dissipation brought on him a
mortal illness , when his last words to his injured but all-forgiving partner were , " Had I but followed your counsel , I should not be
now on a dying bed in terror of God ' s judgment . Oh Perchta , Perchta , how true were your warnings ! " The fearful spectacle of TOIi . XI . S
L The White Ghost Of Berlin. 233
L THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN . 233
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/17/
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