human
I only wonder, added Wolff,
gpt
Oh, yes, Els assented, as if she knew it by experience; then she eagerly continued,
human
She is still just like an April day.
gpt
And therefore, Wolff remarked,
human
And the comet Cordula was followed, as usual, by a long train of admirers, said Els.
gpt
My father was obliged to give the count lodgings; it could not be avoided. The Emperor Rudolph had named him to the Council among those who must be treated with special courtesy. So he was assigned to us, and the whole suite of apartments in the back of the house, overlooking the garden, is now filled with Montforts, Montfort household officials, menservants, squires, pages, and chaplains. Montfort horses and hounds crowd our good steeds out of their stalls. Besides the twenty stabled here, eighteen were put in the brewery in the Hundsgasse, and eight belong to Countess Cordula. Then the constant turmoil all day long and until late at night! It is fortunate that they do not lodge with us in the front of the house! It would be very bad for my mother!
human
Then you can rejoice over the departure all the more cordially,
gpt
It will hardly cause us much sorrow, Els admitted.
human
Yet the young countess brings much merriment into our quiet house. She is certainly a tireless madcap, and it will vex your proud sister Isabella to know that your brother-in-law Siebenburg is one of her admirers. Did she not go to the Town Hall?
gpt
No, Wolff answered;
human
That is noble! cried Els in delight,
gpt
Equalled by few, interrupted Wolff, with a sneer.
human
The men know how to praise her for it. No paternoster would be imposed upon her in the confessional on account of cruel harshness.
gpt
Nor for a sinful or a spiteful deed, replied Els positively.
human
Don't say anything against her to me, Wolff, in spite of your dissolute brother-in-law. I have enough to do to intercede for her with Eva and Aunt Kunigunde since she singed and oiled the locks of a Swiss knight belonging to the Emperor's court. Our Katterle brought the coals. But many other girls do that, since courtesy permits it. Her train to the Town Hall certainly made a very brave show; the fifty freight waggons you are expecting will scarcely form a longer line.