Excerpt from The Ambassador's Wife, Vol. 1 of 3 And motherless she grew from girlhood, e'en To woman's fair maturity; nor dream'd The measure of her loss in lacking thus That Providence of love which Heaven's best care Still leaves most needful. Marlowe. In one of the northern duchies of the German empire, no matter whether rejoicing in the prefix of Saxe or Hesse, stands the seigneurial mansion of the Barons von Rehfeld; an edifice admirably calculated to grace one of the sweeping champaign landscapes of Rubens, or adorn the background of the hunting pieces of Snyders or Wouverman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.