Excerpt from Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, Vol. 2 of 2: With Other Tales of Imagination
It was the easiest thing in the world for Rodolph Steinmyer to become enamored of the fair Bertha, the only daughter of the Baron Staremberg. It was not so easy a matter to obtain the approval of the proud old baron. Rodolph was noble, of excellent family; but what is nobility without money? This was the question with the baron - the leading question in every reference which he made to the pretensions of Rodolph to his daughters hand. Would nobility, merely, keep a castle, find retainers, man the walls against the enemy, or even - not to descend too hurriedly - furnish the table and provide the daily cheer? Manifestly, it could not; and so the noble lineage of Rodolph Steinmyer did not go far toward commending him in the sight of the sturdy father of his sweetheart.
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