The Little Schoolmaster Mark

t lost without the accustomed entourage which he had attracted to Joyeuse. The death of Mark had made a profound impression

rchangel's sword; showed him forcibly that his delicately woven mail was deficient in some important, but as yet unperceived, point; that his fancifully conceived prince-life was liable to sudden catastrophe. He had lived de

econd carriage, which was full of toys for their entertainment; now and again one or the other would be promoted for a stage or two to their fathe

e very fine. For many miles before him, over the monotonous waste, the great tower of St. Stephen's Church had confronted the Prince, crowned with its gigantic eagle and surrounded by wheeling flocks of birds-cranes a

e rich furs which filled the carriage, and kept his eyes listlessly fixed upon the distant tower. The descending sun lighted up the weather-stains and

king scene. Existence appeared to him,

they? 'Ah!' she says, 'there is little chance of that! So few think of aught save self! So few deny themselves for the sake of others, you need not grudge us few our self-chosen path.' That is where they make the fatal mistake. Each man should carve out his life, as a whole, as though the lives of all were perfect, not as if it were a broken fragment of a fine statue; each s

bles of the lofty houses. A motley crowd of people, from east and west alike, in strange variety of costume, thronged the causeways, and hardly escaped the carriage-wheels in their reckless course. The sight roused the Prince from his melancholy, and he gazed with an amused and even delighted air from his carriage-windows. His nature, pleasure-loving and imaginative, found this moving life a source of

gh the winding streets to the imminent peril of the populace of Croats, Servians, Germans, and a mixed peo

, the Esterhazys, the Sch?nbornes. Antique escutcheons were hanging before the houses, and strange devices of the golden fleece, and other crests and bearings were erected on the gables and roofs. Vienna was emphatically the city of heraldry, and a tendency towards Oriental taste in n

is hair. By his side was standing his valet or body-servant, as he would be called in England-Chasseur or Jager, as he

ain here, I doubt not. This place is more to thy mind than Joyeuse-n'est ce

nt and happy. I was happy in Rome, in Joyeuse, at Wertheim; but I confe

art terms with the rest

and one old woman begs that her only son may be excused from military service, and another that her stall in the market may not be taken away; and one old man's house is burnt down, and he wants help to rebuild it, and another craves right of wood-gathering in the princely forests, and another begs that his son may be enrolled among the under-keepers and beaters of the game, with right of snaring a

hat is natural to the Serene Highness, who does not see below the surface, and to whom all speak wit

s of us, there are art-scenes enacted, tragedies and comedies going on, of which

all alike, good and ill, love and hatred, the knave a

air-powdering being o

the Imperial Theatre. She and the Maestro sup wi