. Undine. Take my life, but letme not see thy face ! The white figure made answer. I am as fair aswhen thou didst woo me on the promontory. Wiltthou not look upon me once more ? Ah, sighed Huldbrand, if only it might be so !and I might die by a kiss from thy lips! Right glad am I, my beloved! saith she ; shethrew back her veil and her face smiled forth, divinelybeautiful. And, trembling with love and with thenearness of death, the knight bent towards her, andshe kissed him with a holy kiss. But she did notagain draw back, she pressed him to her ever closerand closer, and wept as if she would w
. Undine. Take my life, but letme not see thy face ! The white figure made answer. I am as fair aswhen thou didst woo me on the promontory. Wiltthou not look upon me once more ? Ah, sighed Huldbrand, if only it might be so !and I might die by a kiss from thy lips! Right glad am I, my beloved! saith she ; shethrew back her veil and her face smiled forth, divinelybeautiful. And, trembling with love and with thenearness of death, the knight bent towards her, andshe kissed him with a holy kiss. But she did notagain draw back, she pressed him to her ever closerand closer, and wept as if she would weep away hersoul. Tears rushed into Huldbrands eyes, and hisbreast surged and heaved, till, at the last, breath failedhim, and he fell back softly from Undines arms uponthe pillows of his couch—dead. My tears have been his death, she said to someservants who met her in the ante-chamber. This is allshe spake, and passing them by as they stared on herwith terror, she went slowly out towards the CHAPTER XIX HOW THE KNIGHT HULDBRAND WAS BURIED Now the story draweth to a close. As soon as thenews of the lord of Ringstettens death had been noisedabout the district, Father Heilmann returned to thecastle; and it so chanced that his arrival timedwith the speedy departure of the monk who hadmarried the unhappy pair. The latter had, indeed,fled from the gates with some haste, for he was over-whelmed with fear and horror. It is well; said Heilmann, when he was informedof this, now my duties begin, and I need no , it was his first task to bring consolation tothe widowed bride—albeit that little enough couldhis words avail for so worldly and so thoughtless aspirit. The old fisherman, on the contrary, he found 133 i34 UNDINE deeply grieved, it is true, but far more resigned to thefate that had befallen his daughter and son-in-law ; for,while Bertalda did not scruple to charge Undine withsorcery and murder, the old man was in far better case. It could be no ot
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