The Bronze Statue, or, The Virgin's Kiss — page 272: what you’re looking at

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' . trice and the knight’s two grooms. | way in many places, formed a cireuit of For a few hours the journey wascon-| at least three quarters of a mile; and Pipes without any occurrence worthy | the space within was occupied by the of mention; and at about mid-day the! remains of the buildings which had travellers reached tl 1 wher 3 ial ne wood where De | once crowded the enclosure. Indeed > tly indi- _ ee taal ss but likewise he reader will scarcely require to be, the strength and importance of that informed that the knight expressed his | stronghold ere the whirlwind of d Joy at once more beholding a spot which | lation had swept through its lordly | alls. must ever be endeared to his memory : But it was not to the hand sf ‘A " and tor this, as well.as for every other | that the ancient castle had Rati -" proof of ardent love which he demon-! No, for notwithstanding four cent ie strated towards his beauteous compan- | had passed over it since its found: bait: Ion, he received her sweetest smiles | stone was laid, it still appeared “o ia and her most melting looks. long not to Time, but to pemnes 3 Phe The wood was passed—the journey | mournful tale of its ruin was sete ” was continued along the great southern | read in the walls blackened b fire ; ‘in road, and at about three in the after- ‘the pieces of broken bebtesie oh i noon the travellers reached a point | peeping out from. beneath the piles of hese another route branched off from | masonry which in their fall had Smiehod rad 04 one, 1n a slightly diverging di- | the very instruments of their destruc- Prins are : | thong and in the rust-covered cannon ad tn the right,’ said De Col-| balls that might here and there be mar, * passes by Altendorf Castle, and | picked up amidst the long dank or this one to the left is longer and more | that waved in the deserted court- a oi, ei ae oe though eventually touching; Yes—every feature of the inca hil t ge ian frontier.’ . . |spoke the horrors of siege, and sack, et us pursue this one,’ exclaimed | and conflagration; and a closer s Satanais, indicating the latter route | tiny would lead to the discover ! Pep: with some degree of excitement, if not | lics of armor, broken weapons el e i of impatience ; then, as the steeds! human bones, amongst the Sea weer struck into the road which she had thus | of stone-work scattered abc t 7 all die chosen, she said in her usually calm | rections. Siedia e voice of golden melody, ‘I have pre-| It wasa mournful sishtto behold ho ferred this path, inasmuch as there | completely the rage of war had d “ stands a ruined castle upon yonder hill, | its work, and how | se where we may halt for a few minutes! of man had destroyed a place which and inspect the picturesque remains of|'Time would have s feudal grandeur.’ successfully the fury pared for many | centuries. ‘BRB . ’ : 7 . © 16 so,’ said De Colmar; and in| The four walls of the old Keep, or blackest gloom Dismountine fy ; y buildings that were ing from their steeds. w | on ; : : : S rsteeds, which | grouped around ; and the dismantled ; reap | corner of that huge and Beatrice remain like- | quadrangular edifice. seemed like a ir re-| grim sentinel placed there by. the very ri en-/| genius of desolation itself to maintain SF comicbooks.com