Chapter 87
Everything in the Right PlaceIT is more than a hundred years ago! At the border of the
wood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditches
surrounded it on every side, in which reeds and bulrushes grew.
Close by the drawbridge, near the gate, there was an old willow
tree, which bent over the reeds.
From the narrow pass came the sound of bugles and the
trampling of horses' feet; therefore a little girl who was watching
the geese hastened to drive them away from the bridge, before the
whole hunting party came galloping up; they came, however, so
quickly, that the girl, in order to avoid being run over, placed
herself on one of the high corner-stones of the bridge. She was
still half a child and very delicately built; she had bright blue
eyes, and a gentle, sw
