The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends (1848)
Embury, Emma C. (Emma Catherine), 1806-1863 · New York : Riker · leaf 222
he young men carrying green wheat-ears in theirhats. Before beginning the dance, which was keptup till evening, with great spirit, each lover wouldtake his mistress by the hand, and approaching oneof the great stone tables, they would lay upon itthe wheat-ears and the flax blossoms. If, on… … by an evil spirit, in the disguise of a gay cavalier ;and her fate is still remembered, as a warningagainst fickleness and ambition. But I am forgetting my story, while indulgingmy recollections. In the village of Plouhinic, then,near the banks of the river Intel, resided a certainman, named…
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