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Transcriber's Notes:

   1. Page scan source:
      http://www.archive.org/details/nosurrender00wern
   2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].
   3. The author's name E. Werner is a pseudonym for
      Elisabeth Buerstenbinder.







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                           FROM THE GERMAN OF
                               E. WERNER.



                                   BY
                           CHRISTINA TYRRELL.



                            _A NEW EDITION_.




                                LONDON:
                        RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
            Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
                                 1881.

                        [_All Rights Reserved_.]






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                               CHAPTER I.


The whole landscape lay in bright sunshine. Clear as a mirror gleamed
the broad smooth surface of the lake, faithfully reflecting the image
of the town which rose in picturesque beauty on its shores, whilst in
the distance, vividly distinct, appeared the jagged peaks and dazzling
summits of the snow-mountains.

A suburb rich in villas and gardens lined the shore. In its midst stood
a pretty, detached habitation of modest aspect. It was a one-storied
cottage, by no means spacious, and showing signs of no special luxury
within or without. An open vine-traceried veranda formed well-nigh its
sole ornament; yet there was an air of refinement about the little
place, and it had a right friendly pleasant look, thanks to its fresh
white walls and green jalousies; while the surrounding garden, not very
large, truly, but highly cultivated, and stretching away to the border
of the lake, had a peculiar charm of its own, and greatly added to