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Title: Little journeys abroad
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Warren, Mary Bowers Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905, ill Sacker, Amy M., binding designer
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Publisher: Boston : Joseph Knight Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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e would wed only the loverwho should ride round the castle on thetop of the outer wall. As might be ex-pected, most of her suitors retired on thisannouncement. A few, however, madethe attempt, and were dashed to piecesin the abyss. Finally a knight presentedhimself whose manners and appearancetouched the heart of Kunigunde, and shejoyfully watched him make the dangerousride in safety- Yet when she advanced togreet her bridegroom, instead of a kiss, shereceived a smart box on the ear, and hisparting words told the inconsolable Kuni-gunde that he was Albert of Thuringia,who, leaving at home a beauteous wife,had come thus to avenge the cruel deathof a younger brother. 124 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. Such was and such is the German esti-mate of the lady who, turning from allthoughts of Verlobung und Heirath, prefersto braid her hair in tresses dedicated toSaint Catherine, or cut it off altogether, inthe fashion that indicates serious devotionto a profession and an independent, soli-tary life.
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A GERMAN CAFE. IDLE MOMENTS IN GERMAN CAFES. TT is the fair acceptance makes the per-fect entertainment, not the cates.And so, with fair acceptance, did we enjoymany moments spent in German cafes.Indeed, the cates are a minor part of cafelife, for one may sit for an hour over a cupof coffee, an ice, or even a glass of soda-water. There are the comic and the dailypapers to be looked over, the decorationsof the cafe,— sometimes Old German, some-times Renaissance—to be admired andcriticised, and the animated crowd of allsorts and conditions of men and womento be studied. The smallest, yet perhapsthe most homelike, was the little CafeRobby in Hanover. How pleasant it wasto sit there in the winter afternoon with 128 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. our embroidery, and watch through thewide glass windows of the octagonal littlebuilding the elite of Hanover, — officers,ladies, professors, opera-singers, — passingalong the Georg Strasse. There weused to read the English papers, which wesaw now

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