It was Frau Sophia, the widow of Herr Conrad Schurstab of the Council, one of the richest and most aristocratic Noblewomen in the city.
"In The Blue Pike, Volume 2."
Georg Ebers
When Eva passed the village forge and saw the smith draw the glowing iron from the fire and, with heavy hammer strokes, fashion it upon the anvil as he desired, she often remembered the grievous days after her mother's death, which had made the "little saint"-she did not admit it herself, but the whole Swabian nobility agreed in the opinion-the most faithful of wives and mothers, the Providence of the poor, the zealous promoter of goodness, the most simply attired of Noblewomen far and near, yet the most aristocratic and distinguished in her appearance of them all.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
She had, too, this pretext, to avoid the curiosity of the servants: one of the Roman Noblewomen of her acquaintance, Princess Torlonia, owned an isolated villa on the border of that lake....
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
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