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 bucks, 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. 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.