Contentp,. x^ 



the iron cross — Thanks in the naine of tlie 1st army by letter ol 

 General von Goeben — Letter of General von Fransecky. . Pai^e 335 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Going to Germany — In Anholt — My husband's debts — Different views — 

 Returning to my deserted home — Sympathisers — Pestered to death — 

 A last appeal to a brother — A princely answer — What I resolved to 

 do — Baron Edward Oppenheim — Going to Berlin — A private audience 

 with his Majesty the Emperor — What happened in it — General von 

 Treskow — My offer accepted — Audience with my gracious Empress — 

 Moving to the Augusta hospital — Noble nurses — Visit of Emperor 

 and Empress — A present from Her Majesty — Lost — Called home — • 

 Moving to Bonn — Persecutions — A forged signature — Law suit — My 

 health failing — In Luzcrn — Going to Clarence — To Pisa — To Naples 

 — Eruption of Mount Vesuvius — 1 want lo see it very near — Jimmy's 

 distress — Pompeii. .;....... 362 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



I want to enter a convent — Applying to the Empress — Letter of Count 



Annin — A card from Baron S to the German minister in Rome — 



In Rome — Count Brazier de St. Simon — His portrait — His mixtum 

 compositum wme — His hobby-horse — I make an impression on the 

 old diplomatist — Eftects — Seeing San Angelo — The Prison of Ben- 

 venuto Cellini — Causing the death of the old Count — Monsignore 

 Merode — Two audiences with the Pope — Declares that I have no 

 talent lor a nunnery — Private .nasE by Monsignore Merode at the 

 grave ol San Pietro — Presents iiom the Pope — A once celelirated 

 lady and pretended princess — Rev.. Joseph Mulloly — The Chuich Ui 

 St. Clement and its subterranean wonders — What called me home — 

 Invitation to Rostock in Mecklenburg — In Wamemunde — Grand Duke 

 and Grand Duchess o\ Mecklenburg- -The ' Stromlahrt ' — Festival — 

 Curious War.are — Called home again — Bad health — In Scheveningen 

 — An American gold uncle — Change 01 affairs — I buy a house in 

 Bonn — Have rented it to Baron Gerolt — Journey to Spain — Madrid — 



Count W A river without water — The palace ot the Duke of 



Ossuna — Invested by the Philistines — The picture gallery — The Arm- 

 oury — Curious armour, &c. — The Theatres — A characteristic adventure 

 — In the Prado — Duchess de la Torre — Serrano — Queen Isabella — 

 Victor Amadeus — The attentate — Disturbed state — Returning to Bonn 

 — A few last words — End of the book. , , , , . 373 



