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diff --git a/41438-h/41438-h.htm b/41438-h/41438-h.htm index e60f52c..40869f4 100644 --- a/41438-h/41438-h.htm +++ b/41438-h/41438-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Heart of Princess Osra, by Anthony Hope. @@ -170,47 +170,7 @@ div.tnote { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Heart of Princess Osra, by Anthony Hope - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Heart of Princess Osra - -Author: Anthony Hope - -Illustrator: H. C. Edwards - -Release Date: November 22, 2012 [EBook #41438] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HEART OF PRINCESS OSRA *** - - - - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41438 ***</div> <h1>THE HEART OF PRINCESS OSRA</h1> @@ -290,7 +250,7 @@ PUBLISHERS" /> <p class="hangindent">I. The Happiness of Stephen the Smith <span class="ralign"><a href="#chI">1</a></span></p> -<p class="hangindent">II. The Wager of the Marquis de Mérosailles <span class="ralign"><a href="#chII">51</a></span></p> +<p class="hangindent">II. The Wager of the Marquis de Mérosailles <span class="ralign"><a href="#chII">51</a></span></p> <p class="hangindent">III. The Madness of Lord Harry Culverhouse <span class="ralign"><a href="#chIII">79</a></span></p> @@ -2100,7 +2060,7 @@ and in death at last are all men equal.</p> <h2><a name="chII" id="chII"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> -<h3>The Wager of the Marquis de Mérosailles.</h3> +<h3>The Wager of the Marquis de Mérosailles.</h3> <p class="indent"><span class="smcap">In</span> the year 1734, as spring began, there arrived at Strelsau a French nobleman of @@ -2109,7 +2069,7 @@ also with many accomplishments. He came to visit Prince Rudolf, whose acquaintance he had made while the Prince was at Paris in the course of his travels. King Henry -received M. de Mérosailles—for such was +received M. de Mérosailles—for such was his name—most graciously, and sent a guard of honour to conduct him to the Castle of Zenda, where the Prince was then staying @@ -2120,7 +2080,7 @@ his sojourn in the country somewhat irksome and was glad of the society of a friend with whom he could talk, and sport, and play at cards. All these things he did -with M. de Mérosailles, and a great friendship +with M. de Mérosailles, and a great friendship arose between the young men, so that they spoke very freely to one another at all <span class="pagenum"><a name="page52" id="page52"></a>[pg 52]</span> @@ -2128,9 +2088,9 @@ times, and most of all when they had drunk their wine and sat together in the evening in Prince Rudolf's chamber that looked across the moat towards the gardens; for -the new <i>château</i> that now stands on the site +the new <i>château</i> that now stands on the site of these gardens was not then built. And -one night M. de Mérosailles made bold to +one night M. de Mérosailles made bold to ask the Prince how it fell out that his sister the Princess, a lady of such great beauty, seemed sad, and shewed no pleasure in the @@ -2148,7 +2108,7 @@ the Marquis was not accustomed to be neglected by ladies, and would take it ill that even a Princess should be unconscious of his presence. In this he calculated rightly, -for M. de Mérosailles was greatly vexed, +for M. de Mérosailles was greatly vexed, and, twisting his glass in his fingers, he said:</p> <p class="indent">"If she were not a Princess, and your @@ -2172,7 +2132,7 @@ out carelessly:</p> Prince, tugging his moustache.</p> <p class="indent">"Are you ready for a wager, sir?" asked -M. de Mérosailles, leaning across the table +M. de Mérosailles, leaning across the table towards him.</p> <p class="indent">"I'll lay you a thousand crowns to a @@ -2195,7 +2155,7 @@ means I will, save force?"</p> <p class="indent">"Even so," said Rudolf, and he laughed <span class="pagenum"><a name="page54" id="page54"></a>[pg 54]</span> again. For he thought the wager harmless, -since by no device could M. de Mérosailles +since by no device could M. de Mérosailles win so much as one kiss from the Princess Osra, and the wager stood at three. But he did not think how he wronged his sister by @@ -2219,7 +2179,7 @@ passionate, and he ate nothing at dinner, but drank his wine in wild gulps, as though he sought to banish sadness. So that, in a word, there was no device in Cupid's -armoury that the Marquis de Mérosailles +armoury that the Marquis de Mérosailles did not practise in the endeavour to win a look from the Princess Osra. But no look came, and he got nothing from her but cold @@ -2232,7 +2192,7 @@ by his extravagance. Yet she did not believe it to witness any true devotion to her, but thought it mere gallantry.</p> -<p class="indent">Then, one day, M. de Mérosailles, having +<p class="indent">Then, one day, M. de Mérosailles, having tried all else that he could think of, took to his bed. He sent for a physician, and paid him a high fee to find the seeds of a rapid and @@ -2313,7 +2273,7 @@ not live without it, and that anyhow he would be dead soon, and thus cease to trouble her. But she, being thus passionately assailed, showed such sweet tenderness and -compunction and pity, that M. de Mérosailles +compunction and pity, that M. de Mérosailles came very near to forgetting that he was playing a comedy, and threw himself into his part with eagerness, redoubling his @@ -2348,7 +2308,7 @@ the skin of his forehead; and then she sobbed and covered her face with her hands. Indeed his state seemed to her most pitiful.</p> -<p class="indent">Thus M. de Mérosailles had won one of +<p class="indent">Thus M. de Mérosailles had won one of his three kisses; yet, strange to tell, there was no triumph in him, but now he perceived the baseness of his device; and the @@ -2400,7 +2360,7 @@ protestations than in those which went before, she fell into great shame and into a great rage; her eyes flashed like the eyes of her father himself, as she rose to her feet -and looked down on M. de Mérosailles as +and looked down on M. de Mérosailles as he knelt imploring her. Now her face turned pale from red, and she set her lips, and she drew her gown close round her, @@ -2443,7 +2403,7 @@ cross the moat by the drawbridge, he encountered Prince Rudolf returning from hawking. They met full in the centre of the bridge, and the Prince, seeing M. de -Mérosailles dressed all in black from the +Mérosailles dressed all in black from the feather in his hat to his boots, called out mockingly:</p> @@ -2479,7 +2439,7 @@ therefore I go to die."</p> then," answered the Prince.</p> <p class="indent">By now the Prince had dismounted, and -he stood by M. de Mérosailles in the middle +he stood by M. de Mérosailles in the middle of the bridge, and heard from him how the trick had prospered. At this he was much tickled, and, alas, he was even more diverted @@ -2513,7 +2473,7 @@ horse waited for him across the bridge.</p> <p class="indent">"Not," said she, "that I care what becomes of the impudent rogue!" Yet she did not leave the window, but watched very -intently to see what M. de Mérosailles +intently to see what M. de Mérosailles would do.</p> <p class="indent">For a long while he talked with Rudolf @@ -2536,7 +2496,7 @@ room where she was, and found her brother, sitting still in his boots and drinking wine; and she said:</p> -<p class="indent">"M. de Mérosailles has taken his leave +<p class="indent">"M. de Mérosailles has taken his leave then?"</p> <p class="indent">"Even so, madame," rejoined Rudolf.</p> @@ -2545,7 +2505,7 @@ then?"</p> the Marquis, and on her brother also; for a man, said she, is known by his friends, and what a man Rudolf must be to have a -friend like the Marquis de Mérosailles!</p> +friend like the Marquis de Mérosailles!</p> <p class="indent">"Most brothers," she said in fiery temper, "would make him answer for what he @@ -2581,14 +2541,14 @@ every sign of ill-humour in his manner.</p> the first brave man who has died on your account." And he rose and strode out of the room very surlily; for he had a great -friendship for M. de Mérosailles, and had +friendship for M. de Mérosailles, and had no patience with men who let love make dead bones of them.</p> <p class="indent">The Princess Osra, being left alone, sat for a little time in deep thought. There rose before her mind the picture of M. de -Mérosailles riding mournfully through the +Mérosailles riding mournfully through the gloom of the forest to his death. And although his conduct had been all and more than all that she had called it, yet it seemed @@ -2608,7 +2568,7 @@ saddled, and darted down the stairs and across the bridge, and mounted, and, forbidding any one to accompany her, rode away into the forest, following the marks -of the hoofs of M. de Mérosailles's horse. +of the hoofs of M. de Mérosailles's horse. It was then late afternoon, and the slanting rays of the sun, striking through the tree-trunks, reddened her face as she rode along, @@ -2623,7 +2583,7 @@ there was a ring of trees and bushes near, encircling an open grassy spot. Herself dismounting, and fastening her horse by the Marquis's horse, she stole up, and saw -M. de Mérosailles sitting on the ground, +M. de Mérosailles sitting on the ground, his drawn sword lying beside him; and his back was towards her. She held her breath <span class="pagenum"><a name="page67" id="page67"></a>[pg 67]</span> @@ -2638,7 +2598,7 @@ hilt, and turned the point of it towards his heart. But Osra, fearing that the deed would be done immediately, called out eagerly, "My lord, my lord!" and M. de -Mérosailles turned round with a great start. +Mérosailles turned round with a great start. When he saw her, he stood in astonishment, his hand still holding the blade of the sword. And, standing just on the other side of the @@ -2646,7 +2606,7 @@ trees, she said:</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 477px;"> <a name="illus05" id="illus05"></a><img src="images/illus05.jpg" width="477" height="700" alt="" title="" /> -<p class="caption">"<span class="smcap">she saw m. de mérosailles sitting on the ground.</span>"—<i>Page 66.</i></p> +<p class="caption">"<span class="smcap">she saw m. de mérosailles sitting on the ground.</span>"—<i>Page 66.</i></p> </div> <p class="indent">"Is your offence against me to be cured @@ -2729,7 +2689,7 @@ said:</p> <p class="indent">"Nay, if you will die, you may die unforgiven."</p> -<p class="indent">M. de Mérosailles hearing these words +<p class="indent">M. de Mérosailles hearing these words sprang to his feet, and came towards the bough, until he was so close that he touched the green leaves; through them the eyes @@ -2819,7 +2779,7 @@ sighed Princess Osra.</p> <p class="indent">Again came silence. The bough was pressed down for an instant; then it swayed swiftly up again; and its leaves brushed the -cheek of M. de Mérosailles. And he +cheek of M. de Mérosailles. And he laughed loudly and joyfully.</p> <p class="indent">"Something touched my cheek," said he.</p> @@ -2832,7 +2792,7 @@ Osra.</p> <p class="indent">"I think so," said Princess Osra.</p> <p class="indent">"Then it was a leaf of the Tree of Life," -said M. de Mérosailles.</p> +said M. de Mérosailles.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page72" id="page72"></a>[pg 72]</span> "I wish some one would set me on my @@ -2855,7 +2815,7 @@ returned; yet during all this time they spoke hardly a word: and although the sun was now set, yet the glow remained on the face and in the eyes of Princess Osra; while M. -de Mérosailles, being forgiven, rode with a +de Mérosailles, being forgiven, rode with a smile on his lips.</p> <p class="indent">But when they came to the castle, Prince @@ -2866,7 +2826,7 @@ almost before he reached them:</p> to lose, if the Marquis values life or liberty!" And when he came to them he told them that a waiting-woman had been -false to M. de Mérosailles and, after taking +false to M. de Mérosailles and, after taking his money, had hid herself in his chamber, and seen the first kiss that the Princess gave him, and, having made some pretext to @@ -2882,7 +2842,7 @@ King catches you, my lord, you will hang as sure as I live."</p> <p class="indent">The Princess turned very pale, but M. de -Mérosailles said haughtily, "I ask your +Mérosailles said haughtily, "I ask your pardon, sir, but the King dares not hang me. For I am a gentleman and a subject of the King of France."</p> @@ -2903,7 +2863,7 @@ with a bow to Osra.</p> Rudolf derisively. "Come in with me, and I will give you your livery!"</p> -<p class="indent">When the Prince and M. de Mérosailles +<p class="indent">When the Prince and M. de Mérosailles came out again on the drawbridge the evening had fallen, and it was dark; their horses <span class="pagenum"><a name="page74" id="page74"></a>[pg 74]</span> @@ -2916,7 +2876,7 @@ of men coming over the crown of the hill, and he says they are the King's Guard."</p> <p class="indent">"Mount, man!" cried the Prince to M. -de Mérosailles, who was now dressed as a +de Mérosailles, who was now dressed as a groom. "Perhaps we can get clear, or perhaps they will not dare to stop me."</p> @@ -2929,7 +2889,7 @@ reached the top of the hill, and are riding down."</p> <p class="indent">Then Prince Rudolf sprang on his horse, -calling again to M. de Mérosailles, "Quick, +calling again to M. de Mérosailles, "Quick, quick! Your life hangs on it!"</p> <p class="indent">Then at last the Marquis, though he was @@ -2949,13 +2909,13 @@ you farewell."</p> <p class="indent">Prince Rudolf, astonished, gazed at her without speaking. But she, moving very quickly in spite of the darkness, ran to -where M. de Mérosailles was about to spring +where M. de Mérosailles was about to spring on his horse, and she flung one arm lightly about his neck, and she said:</p> <p class="indent">"Farewell, dear brother, God preserve you. See that no harm comes to my good -friend, M. de Mérosailles." And she kissed +friend, M. de Mérosailles." And she kissed him lightly on the cheek. Then she suddenly gave a loud cry of dismay, exclaiming, "Alas, what have I done? Ah, what have I @@ -2981,7 +2941,7 @@ he drew rein.</p> most coldly and haughtily.</p> <p class="indent">"Madame, we are ordered to bring the -Marquis de Mérosailles alive or dead into +Marquis de Mérosailles alive or dead into the King's presence, and we have information that he is in the castle, unless, indeed, he were one of the horsemen who rode @@ -2989,7 +2949,7 @@ away just now."</p> <p class="indent">"The horsemen you saw were my brother the Prince and his groom," said Osra. -"But if you think that M. de Mérosailles is +"But if you think that M. de Mérosailles is in the castle, pray search the castle from keep to cellar; and if you find him, carry him to my father, according to your orders."</p> @@ -3034,7 +2994,7 @@ And she held out her hand that he might kiss it, and turned away from him, and looked down into the water again.</p> -<p class="indent">"But we found M. de Mérosailles's +<p class="indent">"But we found M. de Mérosailles's clothes in the castle!" persisted the captain.</p> <p class="indent">"He may well have left something of his @@ -3050,7 +3010,7 @@ not be overtaken. Yet the captain rode off with his men, and pursued till he met Prince Rudolf returning alone, having seen <span class="pagenum"><a name="page78" id="page78"></a>[pg 78]</span> -M. de Mérosailles safe on his way. And +M. de Mérosailles safe on his way. And Rudolf had paid the sum of a thousand crowns to the Marquis, so that the fugitive was well provided for his journey, and, @@ -4865,7 +4825,7 @@ the ring on her finger, as she answered:</p> <p class="indent"><span class="smcap">In</span> the days of Rudolf III. there stood on the hill opposite the Castle of Zenda, and on the other side of the valley in which the -town lies, on the site where the <i>château</i> of +town lies, on the site where the <i>château</i> of Tarlenheim now is situated, a fine and strong castle belonging to Count Nikolas of Festenburg. He was a noble of very @@ -6306,7 +6266,7 @@ the Red Rose. Therefore the King granted the ground on which the Castle stood, and all the lands belonging to it, to Francis of Tarlenheim, brother-in-law to the wife of -Prince Henry, who built the <i>château</i> which +Prince Henry, who built the <i>château</i> which now stands there and belongs to the same family to this day.</p> @@ -6518,7 +6478,7 @@ Giraldo had painted, it chanced that letters came to the King from a nobleman of France who was well known to him, and had known the Princess well also, the Marquis -de Mérosailles. And the Marquis +de Mérosailles. And the Marquis wrote to the King in the greatest indignation <span class="pagenum"><a name="page181" id="page181"></a>[pg 181]</span> and scorn, upbraiding the King and @@ -6550,7 +6510,7 @@ the meaning of this thing; and receive most humble duty and homage from your devoted servant, and, since your graciousness so wills it, most obliged and obedient -friend, Henri Marquis de Mérosailles. I +friend, Henri Marquis de Mérosailles. I kiss the hand of the Princess."</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page182" id="page182"></a>[pg 182]</span> @@ -6559,7 +6519,7 @@ he grew very thoughtful, and, unknown to Giraldo, he sent and caught the messenger whom Giraldo was wont to entrust with the pictures, and who carried the picture of -which M. de Mérosailles wrote to Glottenberg; +which M. de Mérosailles wrote to Glottenberg; and the King interrogated the messenger most closely, but got nothing from him, save that he himself never beheld the @@ -6918,7 +6878,7 @@ the purpose which had brought him to the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page193" id="page193"></a>[pg 193]</span> painter's house, but with a quick step darted up to Giraldo and thrust the letter -of the Marquis de Mérosailles into his hand, +of the Marquis de Mérosailles into his hand, bidding him in a sharp peremptory tone to read it and give what explanation he could of the contents. Giraldo fell to reading it, @@ -6949,7 +6909,7 @@ Turning towards Giraldo, she saw him fretting <span class="pagenum"><a name="page194" id="page194"></a>[pg 194]</span> his puckered brow with his hand, and vainly seeking to compel his disordered -brain to understand M. de Mérosailles' letter. +brain to understand M. de Mérosailles' letter. So she was very sorry for him, and, knowing the sudden hot temper to which the careless King was subject, she glided swiftly @@ -6983,7 +6943,7 @@ Giraldo looked into her softened eyes; suddenly giving a little cry, as if a great joy had come to him unexpectedly and contrary to all likelihood, he dropped M. de -Mérosailles' letter, and sprang to where his +Mérosailles' letter, and sprang to where his brushes lay on the floor; seizing them and his palette, he gave another swift glance at the Princess, and then, turning to the picture, @@ -7151,11 +7111,11 @@ his part he should have to be mad before the love of a woman should drive him mad; and he cursed Giraldo for an insolent knave, declaring that he did well to die of his own -accord. And because M. de Mérosailles +accord. And because M. de Mérosailles had gallantly defended his sister's beauty in three duels, he sent him by the hand of a high officer his Order of the Red Rose, -which M. de Mérosailles wore with great +which M. de Mérosailles wore with great pride at the Court of Versailles.</p> <p class="indent">But when the copies of the last picture @@ -10512,7 +10472,7 @@ Strelsau?"</p> proceeded to his conclusion.</p> <p class="indent">"Love, therefore," said he, "is very various. -For M. de Mérosailles——"</p> +For M. de Mérosailles——"</p> <p class="indent">"These are old stories," cried Osra, pretending to stop her ears.</p> @@ -10692,7 +10652,7 @@ tune to which the world spins round:—</p> </div> <p class="indent">Wear your willow then, as the Marquis -de Mérosailles wore his, lightly and yet most +de Mérosailles wore his, lightly and yet most courteously; or like the Bishop of Modenstein (for so some say), with courage and self-mastery. That is, if wear it you must. @@ -10798,382 +10758,7 @@ with a double quotation mark.</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Heart of Princess Osra, by Anthony Hope - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HEART OF PRINCESS OSRA *** - -***** This file should be named 41438-h.htm or 41438-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/3/41438/ - -Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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