Duke Christian of Luneburg Volume 1; Or, Tradition from the Hartz (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...the threshold. Just at this crisis, the physicians from Hampton Court arrived; and on their assurance that his sister was not dead, though in a state of very critical exhaustion, Henry was prevailed upon to quit her, to relinquish her to their care. The message they sent to the Queen's enquiries imported, that to restore the Princess to animation they trusted would be an easy task, but to recover her from the shock her health had sustained, would probably be a work of time. Here, then, ended the festivity of the day. And it being declared hazardous to remove the invalid that night, her Majesty, with her train, set off in close carriages for the palace; leaving the Countess of Ellesmere, and another lady, in charge of her daughter. But while the gay group obeyed the royal mandate, in hastening away from this unexpected scene of care, Henry would not stir farther from his vigils, than to a neighbouring farm-house, a little higher up the river; where he knew the Prince of Luneburg, in consequence of a hurt received in the late affair, had retired himself, to be out of the way of immediate observation. Indeed, while rising from the water with his precious burthen, a heavy boat-grapple had struck him, first on the head, and then on the arm, miserably tearing both with its jagged hook. Christian, on rinding these wounds bleed beyond his means to staunch, as soon as the Princess was landed, had thus hastened from adding to the confusion of the scene; and George, notwithstanding the honours which had pointed him out as the Endymion of the evening, persisted in making his escape also. L5 He had scarcely examined into the extent of his brother's injury, and by the assistance of the farmer's family changed his wet garments, and bound un his wounds with some of the man...