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AGNES BERNAUERIN. 41
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he of kni could ht from Duke the Albrech congratulations t called to and him comp his s liments quireConrad of lady , and and
bade him g , find out who the maiden was . The squir , e found _manyiiuerin She willing was , informants and well was known the . The daug in Augsburg young hter of g a irl , b and arber was , was , called or popularl barber Agnes - y surgeon termed Bern- .
position ideals beauty iC Angel of . a womanhood , or A ' gnes on surroundings account was , one that both of they Innate of those her stand women rare purit abstracted goodness , delicacy who are and above such tenderness surpassing rank perfect , or
. grace shon and gentle e and throug , A tendern gnes h in her the mi ess beauty g kirtle ht of well . fe . and eling have Manner dress and been of of is a a the y thoug princess lowl , expression ht , masquerading and , her the of mai inner pure den . , for the nonce burg
h the Her er simp fame In Agnes le was barber he spotless -surgeon found , and his ' s ideal child all Augsburg . of The womanhood Duke knew y Albrecht ; and he found respected visited the
one . woman created for his heart to love . He understood why miserhood he had hitherto of feeling felt it which impossible had compelled to love ; him he comprehended to hoard affection the earth created for
with his until hi a g fate strange h idealizing should intense show nature mixture him . He the of loved one passio being , n according and on of thoug to his htfulness nature . ,
thoug His fondness ht onl was elevated , blended impulse with , and and the intensified impulses by alik anal e ysis of , soul till
and of sense y were at once ennobled , and deepened by sublimated thinking . To him , heir to a crown , came , in angel woman iness ' s
guise of a , love the worth highest y and happ perfect iness accorded ; of a love to man which —the blended happ into of the
harmony the instincts of the heart and the dream was imag He rewarded ination , too , continued . by the to deeper Agnes if her blinder name love of Angela of woman . . His . love She .
gave to him—not to the Duk , e Albrecht , , but to the knightly being ideal . of Th her ey maiden were m dreamings arried privatel —the y . whole The love happy of duk her e entire bore
of his his bride father to his 's coldness castle , and indifferent there , unmindful to the whole of court world intri without gues , the duke and duchess lived , entirelfor themselves and for their ,
y human entrancing bliss dream to be lasting of joy—l But ived they a life recked too near not of to that the . ideal Each of
. was that all they to blotted the other out . the The past present and was heeded so fair not and the so future absorbing . All , tr
excess of human joy is , generally , the forerunner of the exemity a of counter human -balan misery ce . to Excess the oth of er the extrem one e , is which intended , veiled , perhaps as yet , , as is Meanwhile
nevertheless approaching silently but surely . ,
Agnes Bernauerin. 41
AGNES BERNAUERIN . 41
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/41/
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