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Beautiful.

Just Beautiful.

“Pity her too,
and these words to her bring:
‘I was married on high
at the gates of the sky
to the child of a king.’
But no word be said
how, when I was wed—
(O lamb, never tell!)
how a star fell,
that the sun and the moon
were holding our crown,
that my guests at the feast
were maples and firs,
the high mountains, priests,
and minstrels, the birds,
many thousands of birds,
and candles the stars.”

"... there were dozens of streams to drink from, many of them thick with watercress, and as I flung myself face down beside one like a stag at eve, I thought how glad I was, at that particular moment, not to be standing properly at ease on the parade ground at Sandhurst. Oxford would have been better; but this was best."

Just reach The Carpathian Uplands.
Impressive. Very Nice.



A few pages awaay from actually reaching this nice number, but whatever

"Angéla and I sat on in the great smokey room holding hands, deeply aware that it was the last night but one of our journey. There are times when hours are more precious than diamonds... The moon had triumphed over the mute fireworks to the east... We leant on the sill and when Angéla turned her head, her face was bisected for a moment, one half silver, the other caught by the gold glow of lamplight indoors. "

A gues at the kastely of Elemér von Klobusitzky.

Arrival at Corvin's Castle.

5. ACROSS THE FOREST, in Transylvania.

In Ineu, Rumania.