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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