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ROYAL HIGHNESS

Translated from the German of
THOMAS MANN
by A. Cecil Curtis

GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers
by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf

COPYRIGHT, 1909, S. FISCHER, VERLAG

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

Prelude[vii]
CHAPTER I
The Constriction[1]
CHAPTER II
The Country[25]
CHAPTER III
Hinnerke the Shoemaker[37]
CHAPTER IV
Doctor Ueberbein[64]
CHAPTER V
Albrecht II[110]
CHAPTER VI
The Lofty Calling[146]
CHAPTER VII
Imma[168]
CHAPTER VIII
The Fulfilment[265]
CHAPTER IX
The Rose-Bush[328]