. Undine. CHAPTER XVIII HOW THE KNIGHT HULDBRAND IS MARRIED The story now telleth of the marriage feast at CastleRingstetten, how it was held and what cheer they hadwho were present thereat. Bethink thee of a multi-tude of bright and pleasant things heaped together,and over them all a veil of mourning spread. Wouldnot the gloom of the covering make mockery of alltheir brilliance ? Would it be happiness, think you,on which you looked ? Would it not rather suggestthe nothingness of all human joys ? Now it is truethat no ghostly visitants disturbed the festal company,for the castle, as we well kn
. Undine. CHAPTER XVIII HOW THE KNIGHT HULDBRAND IS MARRIED The story now telleth of the marriage feast at CastleRingstetten, how it was held and what cheer they hadwho were present thereat. Bethink thee of a multi-tude of bright and pleasant things heaped together,and over them all a veil of mourning spread. Wouldnot the gloom of the covering make mockery of alltheir brilliance ? Would it be happiness, think you,on which you looked ? Would it not rather suggestthe nothingness of all human joys ? Now it is truethat no ghostly visitants disturbed the festal company,for the castle, as we well know, had been made safe 127 i28 UNDINE against the mischief of angry water-sprites. But thatof which the knight was ware, ay, and the fisherman,too, and all the guests, was that the chief person ofthe feast was absent, and that the chief person couldbe none other than the gentle and much loved so be that a door opened, all eyes turned, willy-nilly, in that direction; and if it were but the steward
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