Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive [Transcriber's note: Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/inparadiseanove00heysgoog] COLLECTION OF FOREIGN AUTHORS, No. XII. * * * * * IN PARADISE. VOL. I. VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED: I. _SAMUEL BROHL AND COMPANY_. A Novel. From the French of Victor Cherbuliez. 1 vol., 16mo. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00. II. _GERARD'S MARRIAGE_. A Novel. From the French of André Theuriet. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. III. _SPIRITE_. A Fantasy. From the French of Théophile Gautier. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. IV. _THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT_. From the French of George Sand. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. V. _META HOLDENIS_. A Novel. From the French of Victor Cherbuliez. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. VI. _ROMANCES OF THE EAST_. From the French of Comte de Gobineau. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00. VII. _RENEE AND FRANZ_ (Le Bleuet). From the French of Gustave Haller. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. VIII. _MADAME GOSSELIN_. From the French of Louis Ulbach. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00. IX. _THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS_. From the French of André Theuriet. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. X. _ARIADNE_. From the French of Henry Greville. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents. XI. _SAFAR-HADGI_; or, Russ and Turcoman. From the French of Prince Lubomirski. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00. XII. _IN PARADISE_. From the German of Paul Heyse. 2 vols. Per vol., paper cover, 60 cents; doth, $1.00. IN PARADISE _A NOVEL_ FROM THE GERMAN OF PAUL HEYSE VOL. I NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 549 AND 551 BROADWAY 1878 ***_It has been decided to omit from this translation the poems which are scattered through the novel in the German. A few trifling changes in certain passages have been made necessary by this omission; and the translator has in two or three cases very slightly condensed the text._ * * * * * COPYRIGHT BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1878. IN PARADISE. _BOOK I_. CHAPTER I. It was a Sunday in the midsummer of 1869.