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  ROYAL HIGHNESS

  Translated from the German of
  THOMAS MANN
  by A. Cecil Curtis

  GROSSET & DUNLAP
  Publishers
  by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf


  COPYRIGHT, 1909, S. FISCHER, VERLAG

  MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




CONTENTS


  Prelude                           vii

  CHAPTER I
  The Constriction                    1

  CHAPTER II
  The Country                        25

  CHAPTER III
  Hinnerke the Shoemaker             37

  CHAPTER IV
  Doctor Ueberbein                   64

  CHAPTER V
  Albrecht II                       110

  CHAPTER VI
  The Lofty Calling                 146

  CHAPTER VII
  Imma                              168

  CHAPTER VIII
  The Fulfilment                    265

  CHAPTER IX
  The Rose-Bush                     328




PRELUDE


The scene is the Albrechtstrasse, the main artery of the capital, which
runs from Albrechtsplatz and the Old Schloss to the barracks of the
Fusiliers of the Guard. The time is noon on an ordinary week-day; the
season of the year does not matter. The weather is fair to moderate. It
is not raining, but the sky is not clear; it is a uniform light