. Undine. CHAPTER XII HOW THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE CITY Now the lord of Ringstetten might well have beenbetter pleased had the events of the day turned outotherwise; yet even so, it must needs content himthat his wife should have been shown to be so goodand sweet and kindly. If a soul I have given her,he would say to himself, tis indeed a better onethan mine own. And forthwith his only thought wasto speak comfortingly to the weeping Undine, and onthe following morning to leave a city, which after suchevents, must have become distasteful to her. No one 84 HOW THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE CITY 85 judg
. Undine. CHAPTER XII HOW THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE CITY Now the lord of Ringstetten might well have beenbetter pleased had the events of the day turned outotherwise; yet even so, it must needs content himthat his wife should have been shown to be so goodand sweet and kindly. If a soul I have given her,he would say to himself, tis indeed a better onethan mine own. And forthwith his only thought wasto speak comfortingly to the weeping Undine, and onthe following morning to leave a city, which after suchevents, must have become distasteful to her. No one 84 HOW THEY JOURNEYED FROM THE CITY 85 judged her with disfavour, it is true. From the first,something of strangeness and mystery was looked forin her, and the discovery of Bertaldas birth causedno great wonderment ; moreover, every one who hadheard the story and seen how distempered wasBertaldas behaviour, felt disgust at her alone. Ofthis, however, the knight and his lady knew nothingas yet. Praise or blame was alike painful to Undine,and there w
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