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BY THE AUTHOR OF "VILLA EDEN."
ON THE HEIGHTS.
Revised Edition. In one volume, with Pictorial Title. 16mo.Cloth.Price, $2.00.
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ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston.
"Be patient a few minutes longer! There's a manbeckoning to go with us,"
said the boatman to his passengers.
—Villa Eden, Page 1.
VILLA EDEN:
THE COUNTRY-HOUSE ON THE RHINE.
By BERTHOLD AUERBACH.
TRANSLATED BY CHARLES C. SHACKFORD.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
ROBERTS BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
THE COUNTRY-HOUSE ON THE RHINE.
A ROMANCE, BY BERTHOLD AUERBACH.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
THE APPARITION.
"Be patient a few: minutes longer! There's a man beckoning togo withus," said the boatman to his passengers, two women and one man. The manwas gray-haired, of slender form, rubicund face, and blue eyes of akindly, but absent-minded and weary expression; a heavy moustache,wholly covering the upper lip, seemed out of keeping with thisinoffensive face. He wore a new summer suit of that fashionablematerial which seems be-dashed and be-sprinkled with white, as if thewearer had purposely rolled himself in a feather bed. He had, moreover,a pretty wallet attached to a leather belt, and embroidered with blueand red beads.
Opposite the man sat a tall and stately woman, with restlesseyes andsharp features, that might once have been attractive. She shook herhead, vexed at the delay, like one not accustomed to be kept waiting,got up, and sat down again. She wore a pale-yellow silk dress, and thewhite veil on her gray round hat was wound about the rim like the bandaround a turban. Again she threw back her head with a quick movement,then looked straight down before her, as if not to show any interest inthe stranger, and boring with the point of her large parasol into theside of the boat.
Near the man sat a smiling, fair maiden, in a blue summersuit, andholding in her hand, by the elastic string, a small blue hat ornamentedwith a bird's wing. Her head was rather large and heavy, and the broadforehead was made yet more mass