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Anthony Hope. The Prisoner of Zenda
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Anthony Hope
History of Collins
Life & Times
CHAPTER 1. The Rassendylls—With a Word on the Elphbergs
CHAPTER 2. Concerning the Colour of Men’s Hair
CHAPTER 3. A Merry Evening with a Distant Relative
CHAPTER 4. The King Keeps His Appointment
CHAPTER 5. The Adventures of an Understudy
CHAPTER 6. The Secret of a Cellar
CHAPTER 7. His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
CHAPTER 8. A Fair Cousin and a Dark Brother
CHAPTER 9. A New Use for a Tea-table
CHAPTER 10. A Great Chance for a Villain
CHAPTER 11. Hunting a Very Big Boar
CHAPTER 12. I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook
CHAPTER 13. An Improvement on Jacob’s Ladder
CHAPTER 14. A Night Outside the Castle
CHAPTER 15. I Talk with a Tempter
CHAPTER 16. A Desperate Plan
CHAPTER 17. Young Rupert’s Midnight Diversions
CHAPTER 18. The Forcing of the Trap
CHAPTER 19. Face to Face in the Forest
CHAPTER 20. The Prisoner and the King
CHAPTER 21. If Love Were All!
CHAPTER 22. Present, Past—and Future?
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
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But this time she could get no more than a qualified promise out of me. To tell the truth, I would have wagered a handsome sum that the story of my expedition that summer would stain no paper and spoil not a single pen. And that shows how little we know what the future holds; for here I am, fulfilling my qualified promise, and writing, as I never thought to write, a book—though it will hardly serve as an introduction to political life, and has not a jot to do with the Tyrol.
Neither would it, I fear, please Lady Burlesdon, if I were to submit it to her critical eye—a step which I have no intention of taking.
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