The maiden, however, did not like him quite so much as a girl should like the man to whom she is engaged, and had no confidence in him.
The gardener was watching, but as the angel was standing by, he was afraid and thought the maiden was a spirit, and was silent, neither did he dare to cry out, or to speak to the spirit.
But the maiden took it to heart daily, and thought she must save her brothers.
Every day the maiden went out to her mother's grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good.
When the maiden showed the Queen the empty rooms, and the great heap of yarn, she gave orders for the wedding, and the bridegroom rejoiced that he was to have such a clever and industrious wife, and praised her mightily.
Then the maiden was obedient, and put on the paper frock, and went out with the basket.
Then the door opened, and the king walked in, and there stood a maiden more lovely than any he had ever seen.
Said the maiden, where are my twelve brothers, I have never yet heard of them.
And when he saw the portrait of the maiden, which was so magnificent and shone with gold and precious stones, he fell fainting to the ground.
The king had promised that he who would venture should have his daughter to wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden the sun shone on.
When the maiden gave her the bunch, the virgin looked into her eyes and said 'have you not opened the thirteenth door also.
Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own beautiful flower to have worn this one, presented by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden.
—a child, and yet a grown maiden!
" And he remembered it so well in all the various forms in which it had come to him, sometimes young and charming, like spring itself, sometimes as a beautiful maiden, with a wreath of thyme in her hair, and a beechen branch in her hand, and with eyes that gleamed like deep woodland lakes in the bright sunshine.
On the clear, transparent ground sat the Ice Maiden.
They sailed in hosts before the Ice Maiden as she came out of her palace of ice.
The air was fresh, but cold; for here amidst the deep snow, the Ice Maiden reigned.
The Ice Maiden THE walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St.
The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the valleys, as well as upon the mountains, and the Ice Maiden sat in the stately palace which, in winter time, she generally occupied.
The wind whistled around him, and beneath him the waters of the abyss, swelled by the thawing of the glaciers, those palaces of the Ice Maiden, foamed and roared in their rapid course.
