The Prose Works Hyperion Kavanagh - 2 Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com ... more »where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. Jean Paul, the Only-One IT was already night when Flemming crossed the Roman bridge over the Nahe, and entered the town of Bingen. He stopped at the White Horse; and, before going to bed, looked out into the dim starlight from his window towards the Rhine, and his heart leaped within him to behold the bold outline of the neighboring hills crested with Gothic ruins; -- which in the morning proved to be only a high slated roof, with fantastic chimneys. The morning was bright and frosty ; and the river tinged with gay colors by the rising sun. A soft, thin vapor floated in the air., In the sunbeams flashed the hoar-frost like silver stars ; and through a long avenue of trees, whose dripping branches bent and scattered pearls before him Paul Flemming journeyed on in triumph. The man in the play who wished for " someforty pounds of lovely beef, placed in a Mediterranean Sea of brewis," might have seen his ample desires almost realized at the table d'h6te of the Rheinischen Hof, in Mayence, where Flemming dined that day. At the head of the table sat a gentleman with a smooth, broad forehead, and large, intelligent eyes. He was from Baireuth in Franconia; and talked about poetry and Jean Paul to a pale, romantic-looking lady on his right. There was music all dinner-time, at the other end of the hall, -- a harp and a horn and a voice, -- so that a great part of the fat gentleman's conversation with the pale lady was lost to Flemming, who sat opposite to her, and could look right into her large, melancholy eyes. But what he heard so much interested ...« less