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Progress of My Friendship for Tilling -- The Toy Soldiers -- A Dinner at My Father's -- The Brave Hupfauf -- Darwin -- A Charming Tête-à-Tête, Ending in a Misunderstanding -- Growing Attachment -- A Call on Countess Griesbach -- Jealousy Dispelled -- Absence of the Loved One -- A Touching Letter from Tilling on His Mother's Death.
The carnival was over. Rosa and Lilly, my sisters, had "amused themselves immensely. " Each had a list of half-a-dozen conquests. Still there was no desirable partie among them, and "the right person" had not shown himself for either. So much the better. They would gladly enjoy a few years more of maidenhood before taking on themselves the married yoke.