Sammanfattning av Hyperion, Chapter 4

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1. Flemming returns to the waiting carriage, and the journey continues to the Star tavern in Salzig.
2. The innkeeper’s daughter rows him across the Rhine and agrees to tell the legend of Liebenstein.
3. In her story, two brothers love Lady Geraldine, but the younger becomes engaged to her and leaves for war.
4. He returns with a Greek wife; Geraldine enters a convent and stops the brothers from fighting over her treatment.
5. A call from shore interrupts Lisbeth, who discovers that the current carries them downstream to Kamp.
6. They land near the monastery, and Flemming declines her offer to accompany him toward Liebenstein.

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The narrator contrasts Flemming’s dreaming with the horses’ extra work. The remark links private absorption to burdens that others must bear.

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