A Noble Name by Claire Von Glümer

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A NOBLE NAME

DOeNNINGHAUSEN

BY CLAIRE VON GLUeMER

TRANSLATED BY MRS. A. L. WISTER

PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1883

CONTENTS.

I.--"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE"

II.--DISAPPOINTED ASPIRATIONS

III.--A CRISIS

IV.--FUTURE PLANS DECIDED

V.--AT DOeNNINGHAUSEN

VI.--THE FREIHERR'S PRINCIPLES

VII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG

VIII.--CHRISTMAS AT DOeNNINGHAUSEN

IX.--NEW YEAR'S EVE

X.--"THAT BLASE LIEUTENANT"

XI.--RECOVERY

XII.--CELA N'ENGAGE A RIEN

XIII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG

XIV.--AN UNEXPECTED RETURN

XV.--A BIRTHDAY FETE

XVI.--A BETROTHAL

XVII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG

XVIII.--TANNHAGEN

XIX.--PROFESSIONAL ENTHUSIASM

XX.--AN EQUESTRIAN ARTIST

XXI.--SHIPWRECK

XXII.--DOeNNINGHAUSEN OBSTINACY

XXIII.--THE FREIHERR ASSERTS HIS AUTHORITY

XXIV.--DR. URBAN WOLF

XXV.--A WAGER AND AN ADVISER

XXVI.--DR. STEIN'S SCHEME

XXVII.--THE FREIHERR'S WEAKNESS IS PAST

XXVIII.--THE TERRACE-COTTAGE

XXIX.--CHANGES AT DOeNNINGHAUSEN

XXX.--AN OLD FRIEND ONCE MORE

XXXI.--THE TRUTH AT LAST

XXXII.--TWO YEARS AFTERWARD

A NOBLE NAME;

OR,

DOeNNINGHAUSEN.

CHAPTER I.

"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE."

At the window of a luxuriously-furnished dressing-room a young girl was seated sewing, murmuring verses the while to herself with an absorbed air. All around her lay various stuffs, ribbons, and laces, while standing upon a footstool at a toilet-table immediately behind her a strikingly beautiful child, five or six years old, was twisting gay ribbons about her head and arms, finally throwing around her shoulders a blue satin sash and looking at herself in the glass with immense satisfaction.

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