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A ROMANCE 211
or unbecoming on my side, and your Highness
takes it in good part, I begin to believe we may
have a capital time together, sir — a capital time.
For a gaoler is only a fellow captive.'
'May I inquire, Herr Gordon,' asked Otto,
' what led you to accept this dangerous and I
woidd fain hope tliankless office ? '
' Very natural, I am sure,' replied the officer
of fortune. ' My pay is, in the meanwhile,
doubled.'
• Well, sir, I will not presume to criticise,'
returned the Prince. ' And I perceive the
carriage.'
Sure enough, at the intersection of two alleys
of the Park, a coach and four, conspicuous by
its lanterns, stood in waiting. And a little way
off about a score of lancers were drawn up
under the shadow of the trees.
or unbecoming on my side, and your Highness
takes it in good part, I begin to believe we may
have a capital time together, sir — a capital time.
For a gaoler is only a fellow captive.'
'May I inquire, Herr Gordon,' asked Otto,
' what led you to accept this dangerous and I
woidd fain hope tliankless office ? '
' Very natural, I am sure,' replied the officer
of fortune. ' My pay is, in the meanwhile,
doubled.'
• Well, sir, I will not presume to criticise,'
returned the Prince. ' And I perceive the
carriage.'
Sure enough, at the intersection of two alleys
of the Park, a coach and four, conspicuous by
its lanterns, stood in waiting. And a little way
off about a score of lancers were drawn up
under the shadow of the trees.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/81529334 |
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| Description | A romance by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885. |
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| Shelfmark | F.5.e.22 |
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1885 [Date published] |
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London
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Fiction Romances |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Publisher] Spottiswoode & Co. [Printer] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
| Description | Full text versions of early editions of works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes 'Kidnapped', 'The Master of Ballantrae' and other well-known novels, as well as 'Prince Otto', 'Dynamiter' and 'St Ives'. Also early British and American book editions, serialisations of novels in newspapers and literary magazines, and essays by Stevenson. |
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