Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “Yea, about the woman’s confession at the inn.” “Well, the mystery of thy birth is solved at last. Karl, I have come to take thee to thy mother.” Karl looked at Zorastro in amazement as he exclaimed: “ My mother ! ” “ Yes, thy mother awaits thee at the Castle yonder. I can explain in a few words ; the rest she herself will tell thee presently. Know, then, that thou art the son and heir of the Baron of Ledzburg, and thy mother is the present Duchess of Bavaria. When a child thou wast stolen by thy nurse, in revenge for a supposed wrong she thought she had suffered at the hands of thy father. At first she hid thee, then being reduced to want, she abandoned thee on the river near Nuremberg, whither she had wandered. She lived for some years in that city with some Bohemian woman and watched thee grow up. Then she became the wife of the inn-keeper near Ratisbon, and this was the confession she made to me as she lay dying, little thinking thou wast so near. This morning I heard
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