Later Edition is Ketristine's Fortunes.

THE

FORTUNES OF MISS FOLLEN.

LIBRARY.

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MRS. GOODWIN-TALCOTT,
AUTHOR OF MADGE," "SHERBROOKE," AND "DR. HOWELL'S FAMILY

"It is not strange

That even our loves should with our fortunes change

For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,

Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."

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D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

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1876.

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THE FORTUNES OF MISS FOLLEN.

CHAPTER I.

BADEN AND MARKT-PLATZ.

"Here are flowers and songs of birds,

Beauty and fragrance, wealth of sound and sight;
All summer's glory ours from morn to night,
And life too full of joy for uttered words."

CELIA THAXTER.

Ir is five years since I first saw Baden-Badenand it seems such a little while! August came that summer with just enough of sunshine and shower and breeze to make respiration a delight-to ripen the fields of maize and wheat-to tinge with purple richness the vineyards on the hills, and to clothe the pastures with the pink bloom of the heather, and the scarlet and gold of wild poppies and gorse. There was just enough of summer's heat to make a long drive into the Black Forest a luxury-to make us grateful for the shade of the pines, larches, and firs,