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Title: Klytia
A Story of Heidelberg Castle

Author: George Taylor

Translator: Sutton Fraser Corkran

Release Date: July 11, 2010 [EBook #33133]

Language: English

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COLLECTION

OF

GERMAN AUTHORS.

VOL. 44.

KLYTIA BY GEORGE TAYLOR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

KLYTIA.

A STORY OF HEIDELBERG CASTLE.

BY

GEORGE TAYLOR.

FROM THE GERMAN BY

SUTTON FRASER CORKRAN.

_Copyright Edition._

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

LEIPZIG 1883
BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON.
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
PARIS: C. REINWALD, 15, RUE DES SAINTS PERES.

K L Y T I A.

CHAPTER I.

At a time when in our fatherland a cold raw wind made its presence
felt, and the sharp frost at night checked the growth of the early bud,
the Rhine valley between the Bergstrasse and Hardtgebirge had revelled
for many weeks in the timely spring, the especial privilege of this
garden of Germany. Even three hundred years ago at the time of our
narrative the Neckar valley shimmered with the white and red blossoms
of the various fruit-trees and yellow fields of rape, as if spring had
wished to see how an illumination looked by day. The Jettenbuehl above
Heidelberg which to-day resembles a green velvet pillow, on which the
ruins