The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 7
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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 7
PRINCE OTTO
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 VAIN-GLORY 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
THE WRONG BOX
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH MORRIS SUSPECTS
CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MORRIS TAKES ACTION
CHAPTER III. THE LECTURER AT LARGE
CHAPTER IV. THE MAGISTRATE IN THE LUGGAGE VAN
CHAPTER V. MR. GIDEON FORSYTH AND THE GIGANTIC BOX
CHAPTER VI. THE TRIBULATIONS OF MORRIS: PART THE FIRST
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH WILLIAM DENT PITMAN TAKES LEGAL ADVICE
CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH MICHAEL FINSBURY ENJOYS A HOLIDAY
CHAPTER IX. GLORIOUS CONCLUSION OF MICHAEL FINSBURY’S HOLIDAY
CHAPTER X. GIDEON FORSYTH AND THE BROADWOOD GRAND
CHAPTER XI. THE MAËSTRO JIMSON
CHAPTER XII. POSITIVELY THE LAST APPEARANCE OF THE BROADWOOD GRAND
CHAPTER XIII. THE TRIBULATIONS OF MORRIS: PART THE SECOND
CHAPTER XIV. WILLIAM BENT PITMAN HEARS OF SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE
CHAPTER XV. THE RETURN OF THE GREAT VANCE
CHAPTER XVI. FINAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE LEATHER BUSINESS
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At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to “Prince Otto,” whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger, in fact, than a few sheets of memoranda written for me by your kind hand. The sight of his name will carry you back to an old wooden house embowered in creepers; a house that was far gone in the respectable stages of antiquity, and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller in its younger days, and had come round the Horn piecemeal in the belly of a ship, and might have heard the seamen stamping and shouting and the note of the boatswain’s whistle. It will recall to you the nondescript inhabitants, now so widely scattered: – the two horses, the dog, and the four cats, some of them still looking in your face as you read these lines; – the poor lady, so unfortunately married to an author; – the China boy, by this time, perhaps, baiting his line by the banks of a river in the Flowery Land; – and in particular the Scot who was then sick apparently unto death, and whom you did so much to cheer and keep in good behaviour.
You may remember that he was full of ambitions and designs: so soon as he had his health again completely, you may remember the fortune he was to earn, the journeys he was to go upon, the delights he was to enjoy and confer, and (among other matters) the masterpiece he was to make of “Prince Otto“!
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“You think I would lie, do you?” cried the man with the bottle, purpling deeper.
“I know you would,” returned Otto, entering entirely into his self-possession. “You would not even show me the medal you wear about your neck.” For he had caught a glimpse of a green ribbon at the fellow’s throat.
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