Excerpt from The Ambassador's Wife The mansion house of Schloss Rehfeld, of considerable extent and some two centuries' antiquity, is constructed of small red bricks, coped and ornamented with freestone; which, in a peculiarly dry atmosphere and upheld with the orderliness of a prosperous estate, maintains to this day its freshness, as if existent only on the immortal canvas of the artists already cited. Time has done little to the old mansion, except supply successive Barons von Rehfeld, - Wilhelms, - Albrechts, and Eberhards - to its domination; and, in process of time, their portraits to its family gallery. T111 within these few years, the progress of civilization was little perceptible in its arrangements. All it had been when the troops of Gustavus Adolphus scoured the domain shortly after the erection of the baronial mansion, it remained when those of Napoleon. Traversed It, at the commencement of the campaign that left so lasting a scar upon the military fame of most military Brandenburg. 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.