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A ROMANCE 25
CHAPTEE in.
LN" WHICH THE PRINCE COMFORTS AGE AND BEAUTY
AND DELIVERS A LECTURE ON DISCRETION IN 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 the coming day,
composed and fortified his spirits ; and the
Prince, breathing deep and pausing as he went,
walked in the wet fields beside his shadow, 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
CHAPTEE in.
LN" WHICH THE PRINCE COMFORTS AGE AND BEAUTY
AND DELIVERS A LECTURE ON DISCRETION IN 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 the coming day,
composed and fortified his spirits ; and the
Prince, breathing deep and pausing as he went,
walked in the wet fields beside his shadow, 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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| Description | A romance. By Robert Louis Stevenson. A new edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Statement of printing on colophon: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square, London. |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.2.201.011 |
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1888 [Date published] |
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United Kingdom >
England >
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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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