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Excerpt from Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans: The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79
Meineke, the daughters of a farmer in Zahren, a village only a mile distant from Ankershagen; the former of whom was my senior by six years, the latter of my own age. Not only did they not laugh at me, but, on the contrary, they always listened to me with profound attention, especially Minna, who showed me the greatest sympathy and entered into all my vast plans for 'the future. Thus a warm attachment sprang up between us, and in our childish Simplicity we exchanged vows of eternal love. In the winter of 1829 - 30 we took lessons in dancing together, alternately at my little bride's house, at ours, and in the Old haunted castle, then occupied by the farmer Mr. Heldt, where, with the same profound interest, we contemplated Henning's bloody bust, the ominous joints of the awful fireplace, the secret passages in the walls, and the entrance to the underground road. Whenever the dancing -lesson was at our house, we would either go to the cemetery before our door, to see whether Henning's foot did not grow out again, or Sit down in admiration before the church-registers, written by the hand of Johann Chr. Von schroder and Gottfriederich Heinrich von schroder, father and son, who had occupied my father's place from 1709 to 1799; the oldest records of births, marriages, and deaths inscribed in those registers having a particular charm for us. Or we would visit together the younger Pastor von schroder's daughter,8 then eighty-four years of age, who was living close to us, to question her about the past history of the village, or to look at the portraits of her ancestors,9 of which that Of her mother, Olgartha Christine von Schroder, deceased in 1795, was our special delight, partly because we thought it a masterpiece of workmanship, partly because it resembled Minna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
