Chapter II

BY HIS OWN MIGHT.
FROM THE GERMAN, BY M.S.
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A TWOFOLD LIFE.

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

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

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

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

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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.
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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.