Kuhleborn

Kuhleborn seemed to become angry at this: he darted a frightful look at

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

"It is Kuhleborn, that evil water-spirit, who wishes to drown us!" exclaimed the knight.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

"Kuhleborn?" said Huldbrand to his lovely wife, with an inward shudder when they had taken leave of Bertalda, and were now going home through the darkening streets.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

"Still, should he leave his castle," said Kuhleborn, "or should he once allow the fountain to be uncovered, what then? for he thinks little enough of these things."

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

But, owing to the wild apparition of Kuhleborn, the horse had become wholly unmanageable.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

The tall white man, in whom Huldbrand but too plainly recognized Undine's uncle Kuhleborn, and

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

Kuhleborn had meanwhile approached her, and was about to reprove her for weeping, when she drew herself up, and looked upon him with an air so majestic and commanding, that he almost shrank back.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

"But at that distance Kuhleborn becomes possessed of his power again!"

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

But weariness weighed her down like lead; and all her limbs trembled, partly in consequence of what she had suffered from the extreme terror which Kuhleborn had already caused her, and partly from her present fear at the roar of the tempest and thunder amid the mountain forest.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810

The knight was more and more impressed with the heavenly goodness of his wife, which she had so nobly shown by her instant pursuit and by the rescue she had effected in the Black Valley, where the power of Kuhleborn again commenced.

Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqu�� 1810