“She was too young and too delicate to reject _Page_ 37civilization, and she let Christina braid her hair, batheher, and arrange her dress, with sensations of comfortthat were almost like health” _Front_Henceforth mine own lady-mother is the mistress of this 126castle, and whoever speaks a rude word to her offends theFreiherr von Adlerstein“‘No; only I saw that you stayed here all alone,’ she 269said, clasping her hands”