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J46 PRINCE OTTO
CHAPTEE VIII.
THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTIOI^.
Half an hour after, Gondremark was once more
closeted with Seraphina.
' Where is he now ? ' she asked, on his
arrivaL
' Madam, he is with the Chancellor,' replied
the Baron. 'Wonder of wonders, he is at
work ! '
' Ah,' she said, ' he was born to torture me !
Oh, what a fall, what a humiliation ! Such a
scheme to wreck upon so small a trifle ! But
now all is lost.'
' Madam,' said Gondremark, ' nothing is lost.
Something, on the other hand, is found. You
have found your senses ; you see him as he is — .
see him as you see everything where your too-
good heart is not in question — with the judicial,
with the statesman's eye. So long as he had
a right to interfere, the empire that may be was
still distant. I have not entered on this course
CHAPTEE VIII.
THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTIOI^.
Half an hour after, Gondremark was once more
closeted with Seraphina.
' Where is he now ? ' she asked, on his
arrivaL
' Madam, he is with the Chancellor,' replied
the Baron. 'Wonder of wonders, he is at
work ! '
' Ah,' she said, ' he was born to torture me !
Oh, what a fall, what a humiliation ! Such a
scheme to wreck upon so small a trifle ! But
now all is lost.'
' Madam,' said Gondremark, ' nothing is lost.
Something, on the other hand, is found. You
have found your senses ; you see him as he is — .
see him as you see everything where your too-
good heart is not in question — with the judicial,
with the statesman's eye. So long as he had
a right to interfere, the empire that may be was
still distant. I have not entered on this course
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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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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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