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CHAPTER I. Girlish days. My first marriage and birth of my first child. My husband summoned to the Italian war of 1859 1

CHAPTER II. Period of war. A wife's anxieties. Terrible news 11

CHAPTER III. Years of widowhood. Re-entry into society. Introduction to Baron Tilling. Manner of my husband's death 40

CHAPTER IV. Progress of my friendship for Tilling. His mother's death. Growth of love 59

CHAPTER V. Doubts and fears. Engagement to Tilling 84

CHAPTER VI. Marriage and garrison life. Outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein war. History of its causes 116

CHAPTER VII. My husband ordered off to the war. Premature confinement and deadly peril. Letters from the seat of war 141

CHAPTER VIII. Re-union. Financial ruin 164

CHAPTER IX. Approach of the Austro-Prussian war. The preliminaries to It War declared 187