The Constant Prince
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Coleridge Christabel Rose. The Constant Prince
Preface
Chapter One. Foreshadowings
Chapter Two. The Deed of Arms
Chapter Three. The Three Swords
Chapter Four. Perils and Dangers
Chapter Five. The Siege of Ceuta
Chapter Six. The Captured City
Chapter Seven. The Twin Sisters
Chapter Eight. Two Lives
Chapter Nine. In Northberry Forest
Chapter Ten. His Heart’s Desire
Chapter Eleven. Diffusing Minds
Chapter Twelve. Self Chosen Ways
Chapter Thirteen. Before Tangier
Chapter Fourteen. The Steadfast Prince
Chapter Fifteen. A Burning Question
Chapter Sixteen. Old Friends
Chapter Seventeen. Misjudged
Chapter Eighteen. At Abzella
Chapter Nineteen. Times out of Joint
Chapter Twenty. Darkness
Chapter Twenty One. The Feast of Flowers
Chapter Twenty Two. News From Home
Chapter Twenty Three. Loving Service
Chapter Twenty Four. Restored
Chapter Twenty Five. Victory
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In a small marble-paved court belonging to the newly-built palace of King Joao the First of Portugal, on a splendid summer day in the year 1415, five youths were engaged in earnest consultation. The summer air, the luscious scent of the orange-trees beneath which they were seated, might have inclined them to mere lazy enjoyment of their young existence – the busy sounds from the tilt-yard near have summoned them to the sports and exercises for which their graceful, well-grown strength evidently fitted them, or the books, several of which were scattered on the marble steps of the court, have employed their attention. But they were evidently so deeply interested by the subject in hand as to have no thoughts to spare for anything else – a fact the more remarkable as they were not engaged in a dispute, but were discussing something on which they were evidently all agreed, and which they regarded as of the highest importance.
“When our great uncle, Edward the Black Prince, won his spurs,” said the eldest, a tall, dark-haired young man, with a singularly considerate and intelligent countenance, “it was at Crecy by hard fighting. He did something to deserve knighthood. His father let him win the field for himself. ‘Is my son unhorsed,’ he said, ‘or mortally wounded? Nay, then let him win his spurs.’ And see how he won them!”
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“Yes,” said Enrique; “we are resolved that if we have to wait for ever, we will not make a pretence of that which should be so great a thing. Not the year of tournaments shall tempt us.”
“When I am knighted,” said Fernando, “I will go and fight the Moors in Africa, and destroy the castles where they make good Christians to toil as slaves. Would it not be joy to open the prisons and set them free?”
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