Greifenstein

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Book Excerpt: neighbourhood as the 'Hunger-Thurm, ' or Hunger Tower, as having been used as a place for starvingprisoners to death, in the fine old days when the lords of Greifensteindid as they judged good in their own eyes. Frau von Sigmundskron usedto look curiously at the grey building when she was staying with herrelations. She could have described the sufferings of the poor wretcheswho had perished there as well as any one of themselves or better. Nottwenty miles from all the luxury that dwelt behind that lofty bulwark, she had been starving herself for years in order that her only childmight live. And yet the well-fed woodmen touched their caps and theirrosy wives and daughters curtsied to the 'Lady Baroness' who, as theytold each other, spent her life in the towers of Sigmundskron hoardinguntold wealth which would one day belong to the golden-haired LadyHilda. They knew, for the knowledge could not be kept from them andtheir kind, how very few were the silver pieces which were ever seen inthe hands ofRead Mo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798714692260
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"