step,--with a thought still audible to me. It was of such stuff
that Teutsch Ritters were then made; Ritters evidently capable
of something.

Saint Elizabeth, who went to live at Marburg, in Hessen-Cassel,
after her Husband's death, and soon died there, in a most
melodiously pious sort, [A.D. 1231, age 24.] made the Teutsch
Order guardian of her Son. It was from her and the Grand-
Mastership of Conrad that Marburg became such a metropolis of the
Order; the Grand-Masters often residing there, many of them
coveting burial there, and much business bearing date of the
place. A place still notable to the ingenuous Tourist, who knows
his whereabout. Philip the Magnanimous, Luther's friend, memorable
to some as Philip with the Two Wives, lived there, in that old
Castle,--which is now a kind of Correction-House and Garrison,
idle blue uniforms strolling about, and unlovely physiognomies
with a jingle of iron at their ankles,--where Luther has debated
with the Zwinglian Sacramenters and others, and much has happened
in its time. Saint Elizabeth and her miracles (considerable,
surely, of their kind) were the first origin of Marburg as a Town:
a mere Castle, with adjoining Hamlet, before that.

Strange gray old silent Town, rich in so many memories; it stands
there, straggling up its rocky hill-edge, towards its old Castles
and edifices on the top, in a not unpicturesque manner; flanked by
the river Lahn and its fertile plains: very silent, except for the
delirious screech, at rare intervals, of a railway train passing
that way from Frankfurt-on-Mayn to Cassel. "Church of St.
Elizabeth,"--high, grand Church, built by Conrad our Hochmeister,
in reverence of his once terrestrial Sister-in-law,--stands