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A ROMANCE 25
CHAPTER m.
IX WHICH THE PEIXCE COMFORTS AGE AXD BEAUTY
AXD DELIVERS A LECTURE OX DISCRETIOX IX LOVE.
The Prince was early abroad : in the time of
the first chorus of birds, of the pure and quiet
air, of the slanting sunlight and the mile-long
shadows. To one who had passed a miserable
night, the freshness of that hour was tonic and
reviving ; to steal a march upon his slumbering
fellows, to be the Adam of tlie coming day,
composed and fortified his spirits ; and the
Prince, breathing deep and pausing as he went,
walked in the wet fields beside his shadoAv, and
was glad.
A trellised path led down into the valley
of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The
stream was a break-neck, boiling Highland
river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little pre-
cipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted
filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled
in a lynn. Into the middle of this quaking pool
CHAPTER m.
IX WHICH THE PEIXCE COMFORTS AGE AXD BEAUTY
AXD DELIVERS A LECTURE OX DISCRETIOX IX LOVE.
The Prince was early abroad : in the time of
the first chorus of birds, of the pure and quiet
air, of the slanting sunlight and the mile-long
shadows. To one who had passed a miserable
night, the freshness of that hour was tonic and
reviving ; to steal a march upon his slumbering
fellows, to be the Adam of tlie coming day,
composed and fortified his spirits ; and the
Prince, breathing deep and pausing as he went,
walked in the wet fields beside his shadoAv, and
was glad.
A trellised path led down into the valley
of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The
stream was a break-neck, boiling Highland
river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little pre-
cipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted
filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled
in a lynn. Into the middle of this quaking pool
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1885 [Date published] |
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Europe >
United Kingdom >
England >
Greater London >
London
(inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Fiction Romances |
Person / organisation: |
Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Publisher] Spottiswoode & Co. [Printer] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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