CONTENTS.
T. Holmes translation
CHAPTER I.
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Girlish days. My first marriage and birth of my first child. My husband summoned to the Italian war of 18591
CHAPTER II.
Period of war. A wife’s anxieties. Terrible news18
CHAPTER III.
Years of widowhood. Re-entry into society. Introduction to Baron Tilling. Manner of my husband’s death40
CHAPTER IV.
Progress of my friendship for Tilling. His mother’s death. Growth of love59
CHAPTER V.
Doubts and fears. Engagement to Tilling84
CHAPTER VI.
Marriage and garrison life. Outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein war. History of its causes116
CHAPTER VII.
My husband ordered off to the war. Premature confinement and deadly peril. Letters from the seat of war141
CHAPTER VIII.
Re-union. Financial ruin164
CHAPTER IX.
Approach of the Austro-Prussian war. The preliminaries to it. War declared187
CHAPTER X.
Early period of the war215
CHAPTER XI.
War-sketches by a soldier who abhors war231
CHAPTER XII.
After Königgrätz. My experiences in a journey over the Bohemian battlefields in search of my husband245
CHAPTER XIII.
Prussian advance on Vienna. Life at Grumitz283
CHAPTER XIV.
Festivities at Grumitz, followed by an outbreak of cholera which sweeps off nearly the whole family303
CHAPTER XV.
Period of mourning. Discussion with a military chaplain. Death of Aunt Mary327
CHAPTER XVI.
Threat of war between France and Prussia. Arbitration. Life in Paris during the exhibition of 1868 and afterwards in 1870. Birth of a daughter356
CHAPTER XVII.
Approach of war between France and Prussia. We linger in Paris. War breaks out380
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Franco-German war. Departure from Paris prevented by illness. Siege of Paris. My husband shot by the Communards396
CHAPTER XIX.
The end. “Hail to the future!”420