Excerpt from The Heretic, Or the German Stranger, Vol. 3 of 3: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia in the Fifteenth Century

The Mandrake.

"Plunged in a languageless foreboding,
Leaving his comrades far behind,
Into that lonely land he hurried,
And prick'd through forests drear and blind,
In thoughts of woe and vengeance buried. -
And prompting aye his soul to ill,
A demon voice around him flutter'd,
'My sword shall burst that bar - I'll kill!' -
Ever that dark Knight inly mutter'd.

Pòushkin - Rouslàn and Liudmila.

We have seen, in our tale, two opposed parties - that of the boyarin Mamon against the family of Obrazetz, and that of the knight Poppel against the leech Ehrenstein, I will not mention the secret inimical proceedings of the father against the son, so revolting to the feelings.

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