The Progressionists, and Angela.

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Conrad von Bolanden. The Progressionists, and Angela.

THE PROGRESSIONISTS

CHAPTER I. THE WAGER

CHAPTER II. THE LEADERS

CHAPTER III. SERAPHIN AND LOUISE

CHAPTER IV. HANS SHUND

CHAPTER V. ELECTIONEERING

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI. MASTERS AND SLAVES

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII. AN ULTRAMONTANE SON

CHAPTER IX. FAITH AND SCIENCE OF PROGRESS

CHAPTER X. PROGRESS GROWS JOLLY

CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS GROWS JOLLY

CHAPTER XII. BROWN BREAD AND BONNYCLABBER

SERAPHIN GERLACH TO THE AUTHOR

ANGELA. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF CONRAD VON BOLANDEN

CHAPTER I. CRINOLINE

CHAPTER II. THE WEATHER-CROSS

CHAPTER III. QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

CHAPTER IV. THE BUREAUCRAT AND THE SWALLOWS

CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESSIVE PROFESSOR

CHAPTER VI. THE ULTRAMONTANE WAY OF THINKING

CHAPTER VII. POISONOUS FOOD

CHAPTER VIII. AVOWALS

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The balcony of the palais Greifmann contains three persons who together represent four million florins. It is not often that one sees a group of this kind. The youthful landholder, Seraphin Gerlach, is possessor of two millions. His is a quiet disposition; very calm, and habitually thoughtful; innocence looks from his clear eye upon the world; physically, he is a man of twenty-three; morally, he is a child in purity; a profusion of rich brown hair clusters about his head; his cheeks are ruddy, and an attractive sweetness plays round his mouth.

The third million belongs to Carl Greifmann, the oldest member of the group, head pro tem. of the banking-house of the same name. This gentlemen is tall, slender, animated; his cheeks wear no bloom; they are pale. His carriage is easy and smooth. Some levity is visible in his features, which are delicate, but his keen, glancing eye is disagreeable beside Seraphin's pure soul-mirror. Greifmann's sister Louise, not an ordinary beauty, owns the fourth million. She is seated between the young gentlemen; the folds of her costly dress lie heaped around her; her hands are engaged with a fan, and her eyes are sending electric glances into Gerlach's quick depths. But these flashing beams fail to kindle; they expire before they penetrate far into those depths. His eyes are bright, but they refuse to gleam with intenser fire. Strange, too, for a twofold reason; first, because glances from the eyes of beautiful women seldom suffer young men to remain cool; secondly, because a paternal scheme designs that Louise shall be engaged and married to the fire-proof hero.

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"I am very sorry, but, as I said, this plan is impracticable," opposed Greifmann. "Yet I have half a mind to accept those bills, but only on a certain condition."

"I am willing to indemnify you in any way possible," assured the tobacco merchant, with a feeling of relief!

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