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                           AT ALL LIBRARIES.

                        BY THE SAME TRANSLATOR.

                              SACRED VOWS,

                             By E. WERNER,

  _Author of_ "_Under a Charm_," "_Success and How He Won it_," _&c_.

                            3 VOLS. 31s. 6d.

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"The loves of Bruno and Lucie are simply told with that accompaniment
of mysterious sympathy in the inanimate surroundings of their
struggles, which is the highest application of true literary insight
into nature."--_Athenaeum_.

"The incidents are striking * * * * * The whole scene rises before the
reader with as much clearness as if it were represented before him on
the stage."--_Saturday Review_.

"The ability of Werner's Novels is implied in the simultaneous
publication of two translations of 'Sacred Vows.' His scenes are more
than paintings, they are sculptures, and stand out in _alto relievo_,
distinctly conceived and vigorously executed."--_The British
Quarterly_.


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                            WITHERED LEAVES.

                                A Novel,

                                   BY

                         Rudolf von Gottschall.


                            FROM THE GERMAN,

                            By BERTHA NESS.

        Translator of Werner's "Riven Bonds" and "Sacred Vows."


                             THREE VOLUMES.

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                        AUTHORISED TRANSLATION.

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                               VOL. III.

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                                London:
                           REMINGTON AND CO.,
                     5, Arundel Street, Stand, W.C.
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                                 1879.

                        [_All Rights Reserved_.]






                        CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.


     CHAP.

       I.--Primavera.

      II.--In the Lion's Den.

     III.--The Mistress of the Boarding School.

      IV.--In the Forest of Juditenkirchen.

       V.--Internal Struggles.

      VI.--A Sleighing Party.

     VII.--In the Land of the Lotus-Flowers.

    VIII.--In the Church of San Giulio.

      IX.--The Bridal Jewels.

       X.--The Wedding Day.

      XI.--A Legacy.

     XII.--Confessions.

    XIII.--To the East!






                            WITHERED LEAVES.




                               CHAPTER I.

                               PRIMAVERA.


_Primavera_--in the midst of winter, which sketched its frozen pictures
upon the window!

_Primavera_--and yet a midsummer of love, which had long since gathered
the blossoms of spring for its transient enjoyment!

And Blanden wooed Giulia with a passion which, possessing no history of
the past, asserting no prior right, only living in his recollections as
if it were the fairy-like charm of a dream, will conquer her love for
the bright day of the present; yes, for the endurance of a life time.
He did not strive to obtain the renewal of former affection; she had
from the very first resisted everything that could encourage such
wooing; he was resolved to win her hand, and to defy those prejudices
which could pronounce his union with a singer to be unsuitable.

But ardent as was his passion, much as her beauty, intellect, talent
and her great knowledge of the world and of life fascinated him, he was
yet by no means disposed blindly to follow his heart's inclination; he
could even not suppress a soft warning voice of suspicion, which he was
obliged to term ungrateful, because it was connected with their own
former meeting--could this admired actress always have withstood the
temptations that beset her upon her path of triumph?

Did not smiling Euphrosyne cast roses into her lap, as the goddess
stood beside victory upon her car of triumph, decking her with laurels?
How many phenomena of theatrical fame do but shine through a dim vapour
which the repute of their evil habits of life spreads around them, and
it was not Blanden's intention to guide one of these beauties, weary of
adventures, into a haven of refuge.

In the town even her enemies did not