Crossword-Solution: ESSLINGEN 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But when in the dead of that night he was awakened to find a British sergeant with a halbert and six redcoats with fixed bayonets surrounding his bed it occurred to him belatedly that what one man can see in a mirror is also visible to another, and that Marshal Massena, Prince of Esslingen, waiting for information beyond Ciudad Rodrigo, would never enjoy the advantages of a report of Count Samoval’s masterly constructive and deductive reasoning.

The snow had long since melted from the mountain-tops, flowers had begun to peep out of the earth's bosom, and the trees that, grew upon the heights around Esslingen were decked with buds of tender green.

But the inhabitants of Esslingen had no pleasure in contemplating those verdant hills; for the castle that crowned their summit was in possession of the French.

Marie was the only child of the chief burgomaster of Esslingen, and the lady at her side was his honored wife.

What was the fate of the daughter of Jephthah, compared to that which threatened poor Marie of Esslingen? Suddenly a cloud seemed to pass over the sky, and the faces of her enemies were no longer distinct.