Selected Prose Of Heinrich Von Kleist - Plot & Excerpts
. . , a major city in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O . . . , a woman of peerless reputation and the mother of two well-brought-up children, let it be known in the newspaper that she had, unbeknownst to her, been gotten in the family way; that the father of the child that she was about to bear had best make himself known; and that, for family considerations, she was resolved to marry him. The lady who, without the slightest hesitation, driven by unalterable circumstances, took such a singular initiative sure to arouse universal ridicule, was the daughter of Colonel von G . . . , the commandant of the Citadel at M . . . . About three years previously she had lost her husband, the Marquis of O . . . , to whom she had been deeply and dearly attached, on a trip he took to Paris on family business. Heeding the express wishes of Madame von G . . . , her worthy mother, she left the country estate in V . . . , where she had lived until then, and moved back with her two children to her father’s quarters in the commandant’s residence.
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