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Success and How He Won It

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A drama of social ambition and class conflict unfolds around a high-society wedding that unites a noble young woman with an ostentatious wealthy suitor. Ceremonial detail and assembled guests reveal contrasts between inherited rank and newly acquired fortune, while close observers—an austere military figure and a triumphant relation—react with suppressed pain or vulgar exultation. The bride's outward coldness, the father's conflicted tenderness, and the groom's detached apathy illuminate tensions between appearance and interior feeling. Episodes trace how public display, private pride, and the pursuit of success reshape relationships and social standing.




FOOTNOTE:


Footnote 1: The expression used in the original has no equivalent in English. "Gluck auf!" the traditional greeting among miners, conveys to the person addressed a wish not only for his luck, but for his safety. It forms the title of the German story.




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