FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1]: Throughout, the translator will, according to the German custom, use the word "bride" to designate a woman who is only betrothed.

[Footnote 2]: This name means: Lizzy, the huntress.

[Footnote 3]: Director or governor of the district or department.

[Footnote 4]: Feast commemorative of the dedication of a church.

[Footnote 5]: I am waiting (dialect).

[Footnote 6]: Guten Ort.

[Footnote 7]: A member of the Burschenschaft, the name of an association of the students of Germany, formed in 1815, and having for its object the political regeneration of their Fatherland.