KONRAD WALLENROD.
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her entreaties, they gave her a solitary refuge in the tower. Scarcely had she crossed the sacred threshold, when stones closed the entrance, and she was left alone with her thoughts and with her God; and there perhaps will she remain till, at the day of judgement, angels open the gate that now separates her from the living.
At the top was a small grated window, through which the pious sent nourishment to her, and heaven its rays and its zephyrs. Wretched sinner!
