Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A NOBLE NAME OR DÖNNINGHAUSEN BY CLAIRE VON GLÜMER TRANSLATED BY MRS. A. L. WISTER PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1883 Copyright, 1882, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. CONTENTS. I.--"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE" II.--DISAPPOINTED ASPIRATIONS III.--A CRISIS IV.--FUTURE PLANS DECIDED V.--AT DÖNNINGHAUSEN VI.--THE FREIHERR'S PRINCIPLES VII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG VIII.--CHRISTMAS AT DÖNNINGHAUSEN IX.--NEW YEAR'S EVE X.--"THAT BLASÉ LIEUTENANT" XI.--RECOVERY XII.--CELA N'ENGAGE À RIEN XIII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG XIV.--AN UNEXPECTED RETURN XV.--A BIRTHDAY FÊTE XVI.--A BETROTHAL XVII.--JOHANNA TO LUDWIG XVIII.--TANNHAGEN XIX.--PROFESSIONAL ENTHUSIASM XX.--AN EQUESTRIAN ARTIST XXI.--SHIPWRECK XXII.--DÖNNINGHAUSEN OBSTINACY XXIII.--THE FREIHERR ASSERTS HIS AUTHORITY XXIV.--DR. URBAN WOLF XXV.--A WAGER AND AN ADVISER XXVI.--DR. STEIN'S SCHEME XXVII.--THE FREIHERR'S WEAKNESS IS PAST XXVIII.--THE TERRACE-COTTAGE XXIX.--CHANGES AT DÖNNINGHAUSEN XXX.--AN OLD FRIEND ONCE MORE XXXI.--THE TRUTH AT LAST XXXII.--TWO YEARS AFTERWARD A NOBLE NAME; OR, DÖNNINGHAUSEN. CHAPTER I. "ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE." At the window of a luxuriously-furnished dressing-room a young girl was seated sewing, murmuring verses the while to herself with an absorbed air. All around her lay various stuffs, ribbons, and laces, while standing upon a footstool at a toilet-table immediately behind her a strikingly beautiful child, five or six years old, was twisting gay ribbons about her head and arms, finally throwing around her shoulders a blue satin sash and looking at herself in the glass with immense satisfaction. "Lisbeth, what are you doing?" a sharp voice suddenly asked, and from between the curtains of the portière of the door of the adjoining sleeping-room came a fair, pretty woman in an evident ill humour. "Mamma!" the child exclaimed, and jumping hastily down from the footstool, she entangled herself in her draperies and fell. Her mother hurried towards her with a scream, but the young girl had already flown to the little one's assistance.