Vineta, the Phantom City
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E. Werner. Vineta, the Phantom City
CHAPTER I. THE WIDOW AND HER SON
CHAPTER II. WALDEMAR
CHAPTER III. VILLICA
CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING
CHAPTER V. THE BROTHERS' FIRST MEETING
CHAPTER VI. A TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER VII. STRATEGY AND JEALOUSY
CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD "WONDER-CITY."
CHAPTER IX. DOCTOR FABIAN'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION
CHAPTER X. LEO'S VISIT TO ALTENHOF
CHAPTER XI. THE NEW RÉGIME AT VILLICA
CHAPTER XII. THE NEW CONSPIRATORS
CHAPTER XIII. THE YOUNG LANDLORD'S RETURN
CHAPTER XIV. THE HUNTING-PARTY
CHAPTER XV. THE "HISTORY OF ANCIENT GERMANY."
CHAPTER XVI. CASSANDRIAN WARNINGS
CHAPTER XVII. THE FRENCH LESSONS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ASSESSOR'S WOOING
CHAPTER XIX. THE FOREST DRIVE
CHAPTER XX. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY
CHAPTER XXI. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
CHAPTER XXIII. BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FATAL VENTURE
CHAPTER XXV. HUBERT GROWS MISANTHROPIC
CHAPTER XXVI. A DREAM OF EXILE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GOVERNMENT COUNSELLOR
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE "FRAU PROFESSORIN."
CHAPTER XXIX. REUNION
CHAPTER XXX. AUF WIEDERSEHEN!
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"Doctor, will you have the kindness to stop once for all these everlasting complaints! Nothing can be done with the lad, I tell you. I have tried often enough to make him change his ways, and have called in six private tutors to help me. We could not manage him, and you can not; so let him have his own way!"
It was the rich proprietor, Herr Witold of Altenhof, who gave this advice to his ward's tutor. Both gentlemen sat in the large corner room of the Altenhof dwelling. The windows were wide open on account of the heat, and all the surroundings showed that the people who dwelt here held such things as elegance and comfort superfluous if not disgraceful. The shabby, old-fashioned furniture was shoved here and there as convenience demanded, and without the least regard to taste or order. On the walls hung a confused medley of fowling-pieces, hunting implements, and deer-horns. Wherever a vacant space offered, a nail had been driven, and some nondescript object had been hung upon it without the least concern for appearances. Upon the writing-desk lay household accounts, tobacco-pipes, spurs, and half a dozen new riding-whips; a pile of daily newspapers upon the floor afforded a luxurious couch to the large hunting-dog, and gave evidence of frequent use. Nothing was in its place; but there was one article in the room which gave a hint of the artistic tastes of the inmates of the house; this was a very gaudy, highly-colored hunting-piece which hung over the sofa, occupying the place of honor upon the blank, grimy wall.
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Doctor Fabian seemed fully to understand the family relations, and to regard the approaching interview with an alarm quite equal to that of Herr Witold; but it arose from entirely different reasons. "Heaven help us!" said he, anxiously. "If Waldemar, with his uncultivated manners, goes to C– and appears before the princess, what will she think of him?"
"She will think that he resembles his father and not her," was the emphatic answer. "And as soon as she sees Waldemar, it will become clear to her that she can make him no pliable tool for her intrigues; for I will wager my head that she has some intrigue on hand. Either the princely purse is empty–I believe it has never been any too full–or a little government conspiracy is on the tapis, and Villica, which lies close to the Polish boundary, is a very convenient place. Heaven only knows what she wants of my boy, but I will find out her plans and open his eyes in season."
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