A Twofold Life   By: Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836-1916)

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS VOLUME

TWO POWERFUL ROMANCES BY WILHELMINE VON HILLERN.

I.

ONLY A GIRL. FROM THE GERMAN, BY MRS. A. L. WISTER. 12mo. Fine Cloth. $2 .

"This is a charming work, charmingly written, and no one who reads it can lay it down without feeling impressed with the superior talent of its gifted author."

II. BY HIS OWN MIGHT. FROM THE GERMAN, BY M.S. 12mo. Fine Cloth. $2 .

"A story of intense interest, well wrought." Boston Commonwealth .

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J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., Publishers, 715 and 717 Market St., Philadelphia .

[Illustration: WILHELMINE VON HILLERN.]

A TWOFOLD LIFE.

BY WILHELMINE VON HILLERN, AUTHOR OF "ONLY A GIRL," "BY HIS OWN MIGHT," ETC.

It is not what the world is to us , but what we are to the world, that is the measure of our happiness.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN By M. S., TRANSLATOR OF "BY HIS OWN MIGHT."

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

TO

MY HONORED AND BELOVED MOTHER,

CHARLOTTE BIRCH PFEIFFER.

TO YOU, DEAR MOTHER BELONGS THIS FIRST PRODUCT OF AN ASPIRATION YOU AWOKE, AND, IN LOYAL UNION WITH MY BELOVED FATHER, AIDED BY YOUR POWERFUL EXAMPLE TO DEVELOP. RECEIVE IT AS A FAINT TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR A LOVE WHICH A WHOLE LIFE WOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT TO REPAY.

THE AUTHORESS.

CONTENTS.

I. Mental Strife. II. Dual Apparitions. III. From Falsehood to Falsehood. IV. A Guardian Angel. V. Master and Pupil. VI. The Prison Fairy. VII. An Aristocrat. VIII. In the Prison. IX. Fraulein Veronica von Albin. X. Progress. XI. A New Life. XII. The Search for a Wife. XIII. A Sacrifice. XIV. Churchyard Blossoms. XV. A Royal Marriage. XVI. The Two Betrothed Brides. XVII. Insnared. XVIII. Cornelia and Ottilie. XIX. The Catastrophe. XX. Thither. XXI. Spring Storm. XXII. Light and Shadow. XXIII. Between Heaven and Earth. XXIV. Regeneration.

A TWOFOLD LIFE.

I.

MENTAL STRIFE.