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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPPAN GETS MARRIED. X7HEN a thunder-storm has blown over, the brooks remain for a time turbid and muddy; and so a great and stirring event is generally followed by a period of petty annoying work until everything has returned to its old routine. This experience was now in store for Dame Had-...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPPAN GETS MARRIED. X7HEN a thunder-storm has blown over, the brooks remain for a time turbid and muddy; and so a great and stirring event is generally followed by a period of petty annoying work until everything has returned to its old routine. This experience was now in store for Dame Had- wig. There was a great deal to arrange and put in order after the driving away of the Huns; but this she did willingly enough, as her lively spirit and the pleasure she took in active administration, quite compensated for the trouble it gave her. The widows and orphans of those of the arriere- ban men who had been slain, as well as those whose houses had been burnt, and whose harvests had been destroyed, came to sue for assistance. Help was given to every one as far as was possible. Messengers were sent off to the emperor to report what had happened, as well as to suggest the necessary precautions against any possible future invasion. Wherever the fortress was found to be assailable, improvements were made; the booty was distributed, and finally the erection of a chapel over the grave of the Christian warriors was decided upon. With Reichenau and St. Gall there wasalso a good deal of business to transact, for ecclesiastics seldom forget to present their bills for any services that they have rendered. They well know how to bemoan and bewail the damage done to their monasteries, as well as the great loss of goods and chattels which they have experienced; so every day some delicate hint was dropped to the duchess, that a donation of land would be most soothing to the afflicted servants of God. Far away in, the Rhine-valley, where the Breisach- mountain with its dark, scorched rocks narrows the bed of the river, the duchess owned some property, called Saspach.16 On a v..