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The Dead Tryst
The story revolves around family dynamics, love, and social expectations in a pre-war German context, focusing on the intertwined lives of the Countess Adelaide, her daughters Ernestine and Herminia, and their cousin Heinrich.
"The Dead Tryst" by James Grant is a historical novel. The story revolves around family dynamics, love, and social expectations in a pre-war German context, focusing on the intertwined lives of the Countess Adelaide, her daughters Ernestine and Herminia, and their cousin Heinrich.
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On an evening in summer before the late siege of Paris, three ladies—one a matron of mature years, the other two both young and handsome girls, a brunette and a blonde—were seated in one of the lofty windows of a stately room on the first étage of the Grand Hotel Royal, which immediately overlooks the Rhine at Cologne.
The senior of these—Adelaide, Countess of Frankenburg, a woman grey-haired now, and with features somewhat of the heavy German type—had just received a letter, and was intent upon it, while her daughter Ernestine, and her orphan niece Herminia, watched her face with interest, and forgot the little Tauchnitz editions over which they had been idling.
'What does my brother Heinrich say?' asked Ernestine.
'That he has got extended leave of absence from Potsdam, and next week will arrive at Frankenburg, to spend some time with us. He brings with him a young English friend, Carl Pierrepont, an officer of his regiment. I trust, Herminia, you will receive my dear boy with all the affection he so justly merits.'
Contents
- 01Chapter I. The Cousins.
- 02Chapter II. Charlie Pierrepont.
- 03Chapter III. The Dreaded Meeting.
- 04Chapter IV. Charlie in Love.
- 05Chapter V. What Happened in the Dom Kirche.
- 06Chapter VI. An Alarm.
- 07Chapter VII. Among the Breakers.
- 08Chapter VIII. Charlie's Visitor.
- 09Chapter IX. For Life and Death.
- 10Chapter X. To the Rhine!
- 11Chapter XI. Separated.
- 12Chapter XII. The Baptism of Fire.
- 13Chapter XIII. The Dream in the Bivouac.
- 14Chapter XIV. The Letter of Ernestine.
- 15Chapter XV. What the 'Extra Blatt' Told.
- 16Chapter XVI. In Front of Metz.
- 17Chapter XVII. Facing a Battery of Mitrailleuses.
- 18Chapter XVIII. In the Enemy's Hands.
- 19Chapter XIX. The Chateau De Caille.
- 20Chapter XX. Ernestine.
- 21Chapter XXI. At Aix Once More.
- 22Chapter XXII. At Burtscheid.
- 23Conclusion.
About this edition
- Author
- James Grant
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 184 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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