text:  The clergy now stood under the church gate--the preceding guards had stationed themselves on either side of the arch--the Ober-Amtmann leading his daughter by the hand had reached the broad surface of the highest step where stood the aged female and the young artist when the agitated Magdalena unable to control her feelings as the governor and his fair child passed so near bent lowly down and seized the hem of Bertha's garment to kiss it unperceived