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Stories for the household (1889) (14752751275)
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Title: Stories for the household
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894 Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : G. Routledge and Sons
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k they read about the betrothed pair who, on an eveningof the year 185G, sailed across thither, and of the death of the bride-groom, and how the despairing cries of the bride were not heard on theshore till the next morning. But the guide-book has nothing to tell concerning the quiet life ofBabette in her fathers house — not in the mill, for other people livethere now, but in the beautiful house near the station, from whosewindows she on many an evening looks across over the chestnut treestowards the snowy mountains on which Rudy once wandered ; in theevening she marks the Alpine glow—the Children of the Sun recline onthe lofty mountains, and renew the song of the wanderer whose cloakthe whirlwind once tore away, taking the garment but not the man. There is a rosy gleam on the snow of the mountains, a rosy gleam inevery heart iu which dwells the thought, God lets that happen whichis best for us! But the cause is not always revealed to us, as it wasrevealed to Babette in her dream.
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THE XOETHEEN S\VA>S FITIKG FOETH THE SWANS NEST. BETWEEN the Baltic and the Xorth Sea there lies an old swans nest,wherein swans are born and have been born that shall never die. In olden times a flock of swans flew over the Alps to the green plainsaround Milan, where it was delightful to dwell: this flight of swans mencalled the Lombards. Another flock, with shining plumage and honest eyes, soared south-ward to Byzantium ; the swans established themselves there close by theEmperors throne, and spread their wings over him as shields to protecthim. They received the name of Varangians. On the coast of France there sounded a cry of fear, for the blood-stained swans that came from the North with fire under their wings;and the people prayed, Heaven deliver us from the wild Northmen. On the fresh sward of England stood the Danish swan by the opensea shore, with the crown of three kingdoms on his head; and he stretchedout his golden sceptre over the land. The heathens on the Pomeranianco
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