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Title: Villa Eden:
The Country-House on the Rhine

Author: Berthold Auerbach

Translator: Charles C. Shackford

Release Date: June 19, 2010 [EBook #32902]

Language: English

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ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

[Illustration: "_Be patient a few minutes longer! There's a man
beckoning to go with us_," _said the boatman to his passengers_.--VILLA
EDEN, Page 1.]

VILLA EDEN:

THE COUNTRY-HOUSE ON THE RHINE.

By BERTHOLD AUERBACH.

TRANSLATED BY CHARLES C. SHACKFORD.

BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
ROBERTS BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

THE COUNTRY-HOUSE ON THE RHINE.

A ROMANCE, BY BERTHOLD AUERBACH.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.

THE APPARITION.

"Be patient a few: minutes lon