Of course, we have been told that the castle now lies in ruins, so the fact that the beggarwoman is lying on a bed of straw on the floor may not be altogether a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

The beggarwoman happens to fall because he happens to drop by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Like the beggarwoman, the Marquis's command slips as he tries to keep her begging out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Pursuing the play of letters by which a beggarwoman (Bettelweib) comes begging (bettelnd) and is given a bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Immediately following the statement that the beggarwoman sank down and died, the narrative jumps forward several years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Having tried to lie down in the room in which the beggarwoman was once to be tucked away, the would-be buyer pleads to be allowed to spend the night elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

The beggarwoman slides — sie glitscht — but the fall never becomes the kind of glitch in a system that could be corrected or expelled as something foreign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

In the final sentence of the story, the Marquis's bones are said to lie "in that corner of the room from which he once ordered the beggarwoman of Locarno to stand up".    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

The beggarwoman slips when she rises up, and the same phrase describes the way in which a rumor rises up among the servants that there is something strange afoot in the bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

A prospective buyer, a knight, is invited to spend the night in the very room where years before the beggarwoman had fallen, although nobody seems to recall anything about the incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

If the point, however, is that nobody in this story can stay in bed, this may be because the Marquis's initial order to the beggarwoman was only made because he happened to walk into the room by "chance" (Zufall).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Kleist writes that the beggarwoman slipped "da sie sich erhob" — meaning either "as she rose up" or "because she rose up" — heightening our sense that even the most precise exposition of the text's language cannot provide us with a clear causal chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

In vain, she sent people in to rescue the wretched man; he had already found his end in the most dreadful manner possible; and his white bones, gathered together by his people, still lie in that corner of the room from which he once ordered the beggarwoman of Locarno to stand up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

The gentle phantom stoops to the beggar; its pale lips murmur a few airy words, which announce to her the end of her labors; a peaceful joy comes over the aged beggarwoman, and, leaning on the shoulder of the great Deliverer, she has passed unconsciously from her last earthly sleep to her eternal rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

At the outset, we are informed that the Marquis just happened to walk in on the beggarwoman, but the detail is immediately mitigated by the further qualification that this was the room in which he usually kept his guns, as if it was only "somewhat" accidental that he went there after having been hunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Kleist's twenty-sentence novella would therefore be an allegory of events, a tale in which no occurrence — the slip of the beggarwoman, the death of the Marquis — can be understood by situating it within a deterministic logic that would purport to explain what it means by referring it to something else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

The porch of the cathedral, lately so resounding, is restored to the mutterings of the beggarwoman sitting by the door, and to the cold immovability of its stone saints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference