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CHAPTER XIX. 



New Year — The ' little bills ' — In a whirlpool — Onr new Colonel, Count 

 Waldersee — In Berlin — An evening party at her JNiajesty's — The 

 brother of Maximilian — Audience with their Royal Highnesses the 

 Crown Prince and Crown Princess — Their great kindness — Grand 

 Court-day — I conquer China — Baroness Schleinitz — Grand Opera 

 Ball — The whole Court present — Carnival in Coblentz — Balls — 



Fancy Ball at Mr. von C 's — A Spanish Quadrille — Fancy Ball 



at General von Herwarth's — A fishy Quadrille — Mayence — Prince of 

 Holstein — Bonn — Professor Dr, Busch — ist of April — Studying in the 

 Hospitals — Salm promoted — Sad forebodings — Return of the Queen 

 to Coblentz— Season in Ems — The Duke of Ossuna— His Majesty the 

 Emperor of Russia — Princess Rose Salm- Salm — An unpleasant occur- 

 rence — At Prince Solms-Braunfels — Thirteen at the table ! — Our set 

 in Ems — With his Majesty — The Duchess of Ossuna and her train — 

 Prince Albrecht of Prussia — Brilliant misery — Again in Bonn — Ru- 

 mours in Ems — Supper with the King— A Review in Ems — Dinner 

 at her Majesty's in Coblentz — A cafe-dansant — Caught in a shower — 

 Arrival in Ems — The King and Benedetti — Sensation — Supper with 

 his Majesty — How the King looked — I tell his Majesty that I shall go 

 with the army — Concert at the Swiss house in Coblentz — How the 

 King and Queen were received — War declared — Taking leave of his 

 Majesty — Affecting scene — The King gives me his photograph — 

 Panic in Ems — Return to Coblentz — The behaviour of the Germans 

 — Leave-taking of the Queen — Approval of my resolution — In 

 Bonn — I receive a certificate from Professor Dr. Busch — In the Aula 

 — Professor Dr. Busch appointed Surgeon-General of 8th Army Corps 

 — I am to accompany him — Arrival of Colonel Corvin — Of Mrs. von 

 Corvin — Of Princess Minna and Florentine Salm — Preparations — . 

 Dark forebodings — A conversation between Salm and Corvin — The 

 regiment ' Queen Augusta' leaving — Farewell to Salm — A sad mother 

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CHAPTER XX. 



My preparations for the field — Miss Louisa Runkel — Leave-taking in An- 

 holt — Prince Alfred and three sons in the war — Difficulties about a 

 horse — I try impossibilities — Make them possible — With General von 

 Steinmetz, chief of the first army — £n route — My defeat — Hermeskeil 

 — Treves — Disappointment — Saarlouis — Imprudent ducks — Henswei- 

 ler — Gloious news — In a brewery — Prince Adalbert of Prussia — An 

 Admiral on dry land — The distant thunder — Of Spichern— Saarbruck 

 — Meeting Corvin — Entering on my duties — The starving French 

 prisoners — Confusion — The battle-field — Arrival of the King -A raid 

 on the Royal kitchen — Carrying off my booty — Caught by his Majesty 

 — My confusion — In the Hospitals — The i8th of August — Fearful 

 dreams — Vague rumours — Starting for the front — Felix killed— 



