Prince Otto, a Romance
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Роберт Стивенсон. Prince Otto, a Romance
TO NELLY VAN DE GRIFT (MRS. ADULFO SANCHEZ, OF MONTEREY)
BOOK I – PRINCE ERRANT
CHAPTER I – IN WHICH THE PRINCE DEPARTS ON AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER II – IN WHICH THE PRINCE PLAYS HAROUN-AL-RASCHID
CHAPTER III – IN WHICH THE PRINCE COMFORTS AGE AND BEAUTY AND DELIVERS A LECTURE ON DISCRETION IN LOVE
CHAPTER IV – IN WHICH THE PRINCE COLLECTS OPINIONS BY THE WAY
BOOK II – OF LOVE AND POLITICS
CHAPTER I – WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LIBRARY
CHAPTER II – ‘ON THE COURT OF GRÜNEWALD,’ BEING A PORTION OF THE TRAVELLER’S MANUSCRIPT
CHAPTER III – THE PRINCE AND THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER
CHAPTER IV – WHILE THE PRINCE IS IN THE ANTE-ROOM
CHAPTER V – .. GONDREMARK IS IN MY LADY’S CHAMBER
CHAPTER VI – THE PRINCE DELIVERS A LECTURE ON MARRIAGE, WITH PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DIVORCE
CHAPTER VII – THE PRINCE DISSOLVES THE COUNCIL
CHAPTER VIII – THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTION
CHAPTER IX – THE PRICE OF THE RIVER FARM; IN WHICH VAINGLORY GOES BEFORE A FALL
CHAPTER X – GOTTHOLD’S REVISED OPINION; AND THE FALL COMPLETED
CHAPTER XI – PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE FIRST. SHE BEGUILES THE BARON
CHAPTER XII – PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE SECOND. SHE INFORMS THE PRINCE
CHAPTER XIII – PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE THIRD. SHE ENLIGHTENS SERAPHINA
CHAPTER XIV – RELATES THE CAUSE AND OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION
BOOK III – FORTUNATE MISFORTUNE
CHAPTER I – PRINCESS CINDERELLA
CHAPTER II – TREATS OF A CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
CHAPTER III – PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE LAST. IN WHICH SHE GALLOPS OFF
CHAPTER IV – BABES IN THE WOOD
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL POSTSCRIPT TO COMPLETE THE STORY
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You shall seek in vain upon the map of Europe for the bygone state of Grünewald. An independent principality, an infinitesimal member of the German Empire, she played, for several centuries, her part in the discord of Europe; and, at last, in the ripeness of time and at the spiriting of several bald diplomatists, vanished like a morning ghost. Less fortunate than Poland, she left not a regret behind her; and the very memory of her boundaries has faded.
It was a patch of hilly country covered with thick wood. Many streams took their beginning in the glens of Grünewald, turning mills for the inhabitants. There was one town, Mittwalden, and many brown, wooden hamlets, climbing roof above roof, along the steep bottom of dells, and communicating by covered bridges over the larger of the torrents. The hum of watermills, the splash of running water, the clean odour of pine sawdust, the sound and smell of the pleasant wind among the innumerable army of the mountain pines, the dropping fire of huntsmen, the dull stroke of the wood-axe, intolerable roads, fresh trout for supper in the clean bare chamber of an inn, and the song of birds and the music of the village-bells – these were the recollections of the Grünewald tourist.
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‘I am admiring this sweet spot that you are privileged to dwell in,’ replied Otto, evading the inquiry.
‘It is rustic,’ returned Mr. Gottesheim, looking around him with complacency, ‘a very rustic corner; and some of the land to the west is most excellent fat land, excellent deep soil. You should see my wheat in the ten-acre field. There is not a farm in Grünewald, no, nor many in Gerolstein, to match the River Farm. Some sixty – I keep thinking when I sow – some sixty, and some seventy, and some an hundredfold; and my own place, six score! But that, sir, is partly the farming.’
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