es, the guide is right. They are brothers, with well-nigh a
lifetime between their deaths. Is that the meaning of that strange
Demum?
Few of the other tombs are worth attention, each lapsing further into
the bad taste of later ages; yet there is one still deserving
admiration, placed close to the head of that of the two Barons. It
is the effigy of a lady, aged and serene, with a delicately-carved
face beneath her stiff head-gear. Surely this monument was erected
somewhat later, for the inscription is in German. Stiff, contracted,
hard to read, but this is the rendering of it
"Here lies Christina Sorel, wife of Eberhard, xxth Baron von
Adlerstein, and mother of the Barons Eberhard and Friedmund. She
fell asleep two days before her son, on the feast of St. John,
mdxliii.
"Her children shall rise up and call her blessed.
"Erected with full hearts by her grandson, Baron Friedmund
Maximilianus, and his brothers and sisters. Farewell."
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