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Title: A Cigarette-Maker's Romance

Author: F. Marion Crawford

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A CIGARETTE-MAKER'S ROMANCE

BY
F. MARION CRAWFORD
AUTHOR OF "MR. ISAACS," "DR. CLAUDIUS," "A ROMAN SINGER" ETC.

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1894

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Copyright, 1890,
By F. MARION CRAWFORD

Set up and electrotyped May, 1893. Reprinted July, 1894.

Norwood Press:
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. 1
CHAPTER II. 25
CHAPTER III. 48
CHAPTER IV. 72
CHAPTER V. 96
CHAPTER VI. 121
CHAPTER VII. 145
CHAPTER VIII. 168
CHAPTER IX. 191
CHAPTER X. 214
CHAPTER XI. 240
CHAPTER XII. 264

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A CIGARETTE-MAKER'S ROMANCE.

CHAPTER I.

The inner room of a tobacconist's shop is not perhaps the spot which a
writer of fiction would naturally choose as the theatre of his play, nor
does the inventor of pleasant romances, of stirring incident, or moving
love-tales feel himself instinctively inclined to turn to Munich as to the
city of his dreams. On the other hand, it is by no means certain that, if
the choice of a stage for our performance were offered to the most
contented among us, we should be satisfied to speak our parts and go
through our actor