. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ich, into the loilderness. ivithorders to put both mother and child to death. Moved by her prayers, the two men, oneofwijom is with dijficulty persuaded to compassion by his more merciful companion,consent to Spare her life, but on condition that she bide herself in the wood, ivhile theyreturn to report her death to Siegfried. Seven years pass, and one day, while the Countis hunting, the hart be is pursuing brings him to the cave where Genevieve is living zvithher child. The Count, astonished at the sight, brealis forth: SiegfriedWho art
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ich, into the loilderness. ivithorders to put both mother and child to death. Moved by her prayers, the two men, oneofwijom is with dijficulty persuaded to compassion by his more merciful companion,consent to Spare her life, but on condition that she bide herself in the wood, ivhile theyreturn to report her death to Siegfried. Seven years pass, and one day, while the Countis hunting, the hart be is pursuing brings him to the cave where Genevieve is living zvithher child. The Count, astonished at the sight, brealis forth: SiegfriedWho art thou, then ? And what may be tly GenevieveSurely, good Sir, I have known better lived in Brabant. To these woods I fledFrom men who would have killed me, me alone, but my poor, lovely child. What was your name ? and what your husbands ? say ! ^ Genevieve My husband ? Ah, my God I His name was I, unlucky one, am this is his poor child, God pity him ! Ludwig Tiecks Life and Death of Saint GENEVIEVE DE BRABANT. BRAHMIN CASTE 159 BRANDAMOND aristocracy: Our scholars come chieflyfrom a privileged order just as our bestfruits come from well-known grafts.—Msie Venner (1863). Brainworm, the servant of Knowell, aman of infinite shifts, and a regular Pro-teus in his metamorphoses. He appearsfiist as Brainworm; after as Fitz-Sword;then as a reformed soldier whom Knowelltakes into his service; then as justiceClements man; and lastly as valet to thecourts of law, by which devices he playsupon the same clique of some haH-dozenmen of average intelligence.—Ben Jonson,Every Man in His Humour (1598). Brakel (Adrian), the gipsy mountebank,formerly master of Fenella, the deaf anddumb girl.—Sir W. Scott, Peveril of thePeak (time, Charles II.). Bramble (Matthew), an odd kind ofhumorist, always on the fret, dyspeptic,and afiiicted with gout, but benevolent,generous, and kind-hearted. Miss Tabitha Bramble, an old maidensister of
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