CONTENTS.
PAGE
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
