The book The Legends On the Rhine From Basle to Rotterdam was written by author F J Kiefer Here you can read free online of The Legends On the Rhine From Basle to Rotterdam book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Legends On the Rhine From Basle to Rotterdam a good or bad book?
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She resolved, to leave her present so- journ, and to remove to her parents who inhabited the ducal palace at Bingen. Here many nobles of the country solicited the hand of the beautiful young princess; but she de- clined all, even the most brilliant offers, in wishing to devote her life to the education of her beloved son. He also rewarded her trouble and care in the most beautiful manner. Fortunately he had not inherited from his father the wild pride, but the mother's meekness and piety, and s...oon developed a spirit of chanty, and this increased with his years to the great joy of Bertha and her parents. Rupert tarried willingly among the poor children of the place; he shared with them what he had, gave to the poorly clad, even of what he himself wore, and once as a troop of half naked, hungry boys were assembled around him, for which his gifts were not sufficient, he conducted them to his mother saying: w Take care of them, dear mother. 126 BINGEN. lor they are also your children. " Just so showed itself, as Bertha would erect a splendid building, the charitable feeling of the pious boy, in opposing this intention with the words : ^First feed the hungry and clothe the naked, those who are in need and are our brethren.
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