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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 <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: The King of the Mountains</p> -<p>Author: Edmond About</p> -<p>Release Date: February 15, 2013 [eBook #42096]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING OF THE MOUNTAINS***</p> <p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by sp1nd, Mary Meehan,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -435,7 +419,7 @@ Hotel d'Angleterre, the Hotel Orient, the Hotel des Etrangers were inaccessible. The Chancellor of the Prussian Legation, to whom I had brought a letter of introduction, was kind enough to assist me in finding a lodging. He took me to a pastry-cook's, at the corner of the -Rue d'Hèrmes and the Place du Palais. I found there, board and lodging +Rue d'Hèrmes and the Place du Palais. I found there, board and lodging for a hundred francs a month. Christodule was an old Palikar, decorated with the Iron Cross, in memory of the War of Independence. He was a Lieutenant in the Phalanx, he wore the National costume, the red bonnet @@ -477,7 +461,7 @@ moon-shaped face of the gross Maroula.</p> <p>I ate with Christodule and his family. There were four regular boarders and one table boarder. The first floor was divided into four rooms, the best of which was occupied by a French Archaeologist, M. Hippolyte -Mérinay. If all Frenchmen resemble this one, you would be a sorry lot. +Mérinay. If all Frenchmen resemble this one, you would be a sorry lot. He was very small; his age, as far as one could tell, anywhere between eighteen and forty-five, very red-haired, very mild, very loquacious, and never loosening his moist and warm hands, when he had once fastened @@ -580,7 +564,7 @@ civilization. Their minds and their bodies develop at will; their schoolroom is the open air; their master, exercise; their nurse, liberty.</p> -<p>I never cared especially for M. Mérinay; I looked at Giacomo Fondi with +<p>I never cared especially for M. Mérinay; I looked at Giacomo Fondi with the indifferent curiosity with which one gazes at foreign animals; the little Lobster inspired me with luke-warm interest; but I conceived a warm affection for Harris. His frank face, his simple manners, his @@ -591,7 +575,7 @@ admire in others what we lack ourselves. Giacomo wore white clothes because he was black; I adore Americans because I am a German. As for the Greeks, I knew little of them even after four months' sojourn in their country. Nothing is easier than living in Athens without coming in -contact with the natives. I did not go to a café; I did not read the +contact with the natives. I did not go to a café; I did not read the Pandore, nor the Minerve; nor any other paper of the country; I did not go to the theater, because I have a sensitive ear and a false note hurts me more cruelly than a blow; I lived with my hosts, my herbarium, and @@ -680,10 +664,10 @@ him; he would be ashamed if he was like his neighbor's son who never had to be spoken to.</p> <p>It was a fact, that at the time of my arrival, the hero of Athens was -the scourge of Attica. In the salons and in the cafés, in the +the scourge of Attica. In the salons and in the cafés, in the barber-shops where the common people congregated, at the pharmacies where the bourgeoise were to be found, in the muddy streets of the -bazars, in the dusty square of Belle-Gréce, at the theater, at the +bazars, in the dusty square of Belle-Gréce, at the theater, at the Sunday concerts, and upon the road to Patissia, one heard only of the great Hadgi-Stavros; one swore only by Hadgi-Stavros; Hadgi-Stavros the invincible, Hadgi-Stavros the terror of the police, Hadgi-Stavros, "The @@ -738,7 +722,7 @@ spectator of strange occurrences. The powers which had freed Greece attempted to found a kingdom. Some offensive words came buzzing around the hairy ears of the old robber; he heard rumors of government—of armies—of public order. He laughed when told that his possessions were -included in one sub-prefecture. But when an employée from the Treasury +included in one sub-prefecture. But when an employée from the Treasury presented himself to collect the yearly taxes, he became serious. He threw the man out of the door, not without having relieved him of all he had brought with him. Justice sought to punish him; he took to the @@ -847,7 +831,7 @@ to us in a tone of envy.</p> proved to us that he did not do wrong for pleasure. He was a sober man, who never became intoxicated, not even of blood. If it happened that he warmed, a little too much, a rich peasant's feet, it was that he might -learn where the miser hid his écus. In general, he treated with +learn where the miser hid his écus. In general, he treated with kindness the prisoners for whom he hoped to receive a ransom. In the summer of '54, he descended one evening, with his band, to M. Voidi's house; he was a rich merchant from the Isle of Euboea. He found the @@ -880,7 +864,7 @@ mulberry groves, but poor in ready money, as we all are. She mortgaged her property, which is never easy to do, even at twenty per cent interest. It took her six weeks to gather up the sum required. When at last, she had the money, she loaded it on her mule and departed on foot -for the brigand's camp. But on entering the large valley of the Taygète +for the brigand's camp. But on entering the large valley of the Taygète at the point where one finds seven fountains under a plane-tree, the mule absolutely refused to stir. Then the mother saw at the border of the path, her little girls. Their throats had been cut and their pretty @@ -903,7 +887,7 @@ meet him at fifty paces from my revolver. And you, Uncle John?"</p> <p>Harris whistled between his teeth a little American air, sharp as a stiletto point.</p> -<p>"Can I believe my ears?" added the good M. Mérinay in his flute-like +<p>"Can I believe my ears?" added the good M. Mérinay in his flute-like voice. "Is it possible that such horrors are committed in a country like ours? I am convinced that the Society for the Moralization of Malefactors has not yet been organized in this kingdom; but while @@ -979,7 +963,7 @@ pieces, strung them together and wore them upon the head on gala days. They carried their dowries on their heads. The city girls spent their money in the shops and carried their dowries on their backs.</p> -<p>Photini was in a boarding-school at Hétairie. It is, as you know, a +<p>Photini was in a boarding-school at Hétairie. It is, as you know, a school established on the model of the Legion of Honor, but regulated by rules broader and more tolerant. Usually, only daughters of soldiers were taught there, sometimes, also, brigands' heiresses.</p> @@ -1005,7 +989,7 @@ and said: "We have been very well amused."</p> <p>It was certain that Photini counted on showing herself at the concert, and her admirer, Dimitri, was not ashamed to appear with her; for he -wore a new redingote which he had just bought at the Belle-Jardiniére. +wore a new redingote which he had just bought at the Belle-Jardiniére. Unfortunately, it rained so steadily, that it kept us at home. To kill time, Maroula offered to let us play for bonbons; it is a favorite amusement among the middle classes. She took a glass jar from the shop, @@ -1048,7 +1032,7 @@ love could enter without trouble.</p> <p>The rain did not cease to fall, nor Dimitri to ogle the young girl, nor the young girl to gaze, wide-eyed, at Harris, nor Giacomo to eat -bonbons, nor M. Mérinay to relate to the little Lobster, who did not +bonbons, nor M. Mérinay to relate to the little Lobster, who did not listen, a chapter from Ancient History. At eight o'clock, Maroula laid the cloth for supper. Photini had Dimitri on her left, I sat at her right. She talked but little and ate nothing. At dessert, when the @@ -1125,7 +1109,7 @@ announced the dispersion of Hadgi-Stavros' band. A month or two later, I should be able to set out for Germany, and find a place which would pay enough to support the whole family.</p> -<p>We had read on Sunday the 28th of April, in the Siècle of Athens, of the +<p>We had read on Sunday the 28th of April, in the Siècle of Athens, of the complete defeat of "The King of the Mountains." The official reports stated that he had twenty men wounded, his camp burned, his band dispersed, and that the troops had pursued him as far as the marshes @@ -1140,7 +1124,7 @@ my walking stick. Dimitri had awakened me at four o'clock. He was going to take orders from an English family, who had been staying for some days at the Hotel des Etrangers.</p> -<p>I walked down the Rue d'Hèrmes to the Square, Belle-Gréce, and passed +<p>I walked down the Rue d'Hèrmes to the Square, Belle-Gréce, and passed through the Rue d'Eole. Passing before the Place des Canons, I saluted the small artillery of the kingdom, who slept under a shed, dreaming of the taking of Constantinople; and with four strides I was in the Rue de @@ -1149,7 +1133,7 @@ open their odorous blossoms. The sky, of a deep blue, whitened imperceptibly between Hymettus and Pentelicus. Before me, on the horizon, the summit of Parnassus rose like broken turrets; there was the end of my journey. I descended a path which traversed the grounds of the -Countess Janthe Théotoki, occupied by the French Legation; I passed +Countess Janthe Théotoki, occupied by the French Legation; I passed through the gardens belonging to Prince Michael Soutzo, and the School of Plato, which a President of the Areopagus had put up in a lottery some years before, and I entered the olive groves. The morning thrushes @@ -1169,7 +1153,7 @@ Parnassus. The path which I had taken was not a sure guide, but I directed my steps to a group of scattered houses on the mountain side, and which was called the village of Castia.</p> -<p>I leaped the Céphise Eleusinien to the great scandal of the little +<p>I leaped the Céphise Eleusinien to the great scandal of the little tortoises who leaped like frogs into the water. A hundred steps further on, the path was lost in a deep and wide ravine, worn by the storms of two or three thousand winters. I supposed, reasonably enough, that the @@ -1432,7 +1416,7 @@ begged on his knees for sittings. I must confess, at the risk of destroying your illusions, that she had a dimple in her left cheek, but none in the right; this is contrary to all laws of symmetry. Know, moreover, that her nose was neither straight nor aquiline, but purely -retroussé, as French noses are. But that this rendered her less pretty, +retroussé, as French noses are. But that this rendered her less pretty, I will deny, even upon the scaffold. She was as beautiful as Greek statues are; but was entirely different. Beauty cannot be judged by one invariable type, although Plato affirms it. It varies according to @@ -1448,8 +1432,8 @@ only an object of art destined to please the eyes, without appealing to the mind; a bird of Paradise at whose plumage one looks, without thinking of asking it to sing. A beautiful Athenian was as well-proportioned, as white, and as cold, as the column of a temple. M. -Mérinay has shown to me, in a book, that the Ionic column is only a -woman, disguised. The portico of the Temple of Erechtée, at the +Mérinay has shown to me, in a book, that the Ionic column is only a +woman, disguised. The portico of the Temple of Erechtée, at the Acropolis at Athens, rests upon four Athenian women of the century of Pericles. The women of to-day are little, winged beings, active, busy, and above all, thoughtful; created, not to hold temples on their heads, @@ -1461,7 +1445,7 @@ radiation of thought around that fragile envelope, which does not suffice to contain it; it is the quick play of a speaking physiognomy. I am not a sculptor, but if I knew how to use the chisel and one gave me a commission to make a statue of our epoch, I swear to you that she would -have a dimple in her left cheek, and a retroussé nose.</p> +have a dimple in her left cheek, and a retroussé nose.</p> <p>I led Mary-Ann's horse to the village of Castia. What she said to me on the way, and what I replied, left no more impression on my mind, than @@ -1728,7 +1712,7 @@ ounces. The rascals passed it from hand to hand and found it very beautiful. I hoped that admiration, which softens men's feelings, would dispose them to restore to me something of my belongings, and I begged the Chief to give me my tin box. He rudely told me to keep silent. "At -least," I persisted, "give back my two écus so that I can return to the +least," I persisted, "give back my two écus so that I can return to the city." He replied with a sardonic grin: "Thou wilt have no use for them."</p> @@ -2058,7 +2042,7 @@ that I have never refused thee the masters nor the books for which thou hast asked; but my money must profit by it. The set of 'Walter Scott,' has arrived at Piraeus, also the 'Robinson,' and all the other English books thou hast said that thou didst wish to read; -have our friends in the Rue d'Hèrmes get them from the Custom-House +have our friends in the Rue d'Hèrmes get them from the Custom-House for thee. Thou wilt receive, at the same time, the bracelet which thou desirest, and that steel machine for puffing out thy skirts. If the piano from Vienna is not as good as thou toldest me, and it @@ -2197,7 +2181,7 @@ Within these narrow boundaries, our resources are still more reduced by the general penury, the scarcity of money, and the small crops. The olive trees have not yielded as they promised; the cereal harvests have been small, and the vines are not yet rid of -the oïdium. In these circumstances it has been difficult to profit +the oïdium. In these circumstances it has been difficult to profit by the tolerance of the authorities and the kindness of a friendly government. Our enterprise is so identified with the interests of the country, that it can flourish only in the general prosperity, @@ -2539,7 +2523,7 @@ francs income?"</p> <p>"We have more than that."</p> -<p>"Sophocles is a villain whom I shall chastise. Logothète, tell them to +<p>"Sophocles is a villain whom I shall chastise. Logothète, tell them to prepare dinner for these ladies. May it be possible, Madame, that you are a millionaire?"</p> @@ -2950,7 +2934,7 @@ soon finish shooting your comrades."</p> said to us:</p> <p>"The gendarmes will not travel to-day. It is the Ascension and the 1st -of May, a double fête-day. The noise which you have heard is the signal +of May, a double fête-day. The noise which you have heard is the signal for rejoicing. It is after midnight, almost morning; our companions go to drink wine, eat meat, dance the Romaique and burn powder. If you wish to see this beautiful sight, it will give me pleasure to take you to it. @@ -3349,7 +3333,7 @@ friend in trouble. "If any one can save me," I wrote to him, "it is you. I do not know how you can do it, but I hope in you with all my soul; you are such a hot-headed fellow! I do not count on your finding fifteen thousand francs ransom; it would be necessary to borrow them of M. -Mérinay, who lends nothing. You are, moreover, too American to consent +Mérinay, who lends nothing. You are, moreover, too American to consent to such a bargain. Do as you please; set fire to the Kingdom; I approve of everything in advance; but lose no time. I believe that my head is weak, and that my reason will be gone before the end of the month."</p> @@ -3648,7 +3632,7 @@ his hand. "Thou art well?"</p> <p>"What is new?"</p> -<p>"A ball at the Palace on the 15th. It is decided; the 'Siècle' publishes +<p>"A ball at the Palace on the 15th. It is decided; the 'Siècle' publishes it!"</p> <p>"Thou dancest, then, all the time? And what about the Bourse?"</p> @@ -3783,7 +3767,7 @@ youth, consisting of four verses:</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"The Clephte aux yeux noirs descend dans les plaines;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Sonfusil doré——"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sonfusil doré——"<br /></span> </div></div> <p>"You ought to know it; the little Athenian lads sing nothing else on the @@ -4100,7 +4084,7 @@ regretted his kind and paternal government! How I sighed for his return! How warmly did I breathe his name in my prayers! "My God!" I cried with fervor, "give the victory to thy servant, Hadgi-Stavros! Make every soldier in the kingdom fall beneath his hand! Bring to his hands the -coffer, and even to the last écus of that infernal army! And let the +coffer, and even to the last écus of that infernal army! And let the bandits return, that we may be delivered from the hands of the soldiers!"</p> @@ -4568,7 +4552,7 @@ fall, living, into their hands, I, whose arm is proof against fatigue, and whose head is proof against bullets! I seat myself on a bench, before a judge, like a peasant who has stolen cabbages! Young man, you do not yet know Hadgi-Stavros! It would be easier to pluck up Parnassus -and place it upon the summit of Taygète, than to tear me from my +and place it upon the summit of Taygète, than to tear me from my mountains, and place me on a court bench! Write for me, in Greek, Madame Simons' name! Good! Yours also!"</p> @@ -4938,7 +4922,7 @@ myself, that if we could have exchanged places, that I would never have left him eight days without news.</p> <p>I excused Lobster, who was very young; and Giacomo, who was not very -intelligent, and also M. Mérinay, whose downright selfishness I fully +intelligent, and also M. Mérinay, whose downright selfishness I fully understood. One easily pardons treason in such egotists, because one never counts on them. But Harris, who had risked his life to save an old negress in Boston! Was I not of as much account as a negress? I @@ -5380,7 +5364,7 @@ wounded.</p> <p>"At least," the King replied, "confess that your act was very selfish and very culpable! When your life was not threatened, when you were held here for only a small sum, you fled through avarice; you thought only -of saving a few écus, and you did not trouble yourself about this poor +of saving a few écus, and you did not trouble yourself about this poor unfortunate whom you left to die! You never thought of me! that you were going to deprive me of a valuable officer! And what moment did you choose to betray us? The day on which all kinds of troubles assailed us; @@ -6563,7 +6547,7 @@ bees in a sack. He greeted us courteously, and excused himself for not having visited us since the evening before. The musket shots had intimidated him. The King saluted him and passed on. My friends' horses were waiting, with their guide, near the fountain. I asked them how they -happened to have four horses. They said that M. Mérinay made one of the +happened to have four horses. They said that M. Mérinay made one of the party, but that he had alighted to inspect a curious stone, and that he had not yet re-appeared.</p> @@ -6578,19 +6562,19 @@ the King's daughter had fallen into his hands:</p> <p>"Imagine;" he said to me. "I had just arrived from my cruise, much pleased with myself, and very proud of having run down a half-dozen pirates. I anchored off Piraeus, Sunday, at six o'clock; I landed; and -as I had been eight days tête-à-tête with my head officer, I promised +as I had been eight days tête-à -tête with my head officer, I promised myself a little pleasure in conversation. I stopped a fiacre, I hired it for the evening. I arrived at Christodule's house in the midst of a general hubbub; I would never have believed that so much trouble could be found in a pastry-cook's house. Every one was there for supper. -Christodule, Maroula, Dimitri, Giacomo, William, M. Mérinay and the +Christodule, Maroula, Dimitri, Giacomo, William, M. Mérinay and the little Sunday girl, more tricked out than ever. William related to me your story. It is useless to tell you that I made a great uproar. I was furious with myself for not having been in the city. My nephew assured me that he had done all he could. He had scoured the city for fifteen thousand francs, but his parents had opened only a limited credit for him; briefly, he had not found the amount. In despair, he addressed -himself to M. Mérinay: but the sweet Mérinay pretended that all his +himself to M. Mérinay: but the sweet Mérinay pretended that all his money was lent to his intimate friends, far from here, very far;—farther than the end of the world!</p> @@ -6604,7 +6588,7 @@ morning we will set out on a campaign.' William took the bait, Giacomo brought his fist down in a crashing blow on the table; you know what Giacomo's fist-blows are. He swore that he would accompany us, provided he could find a single-barreled gun. But the most enraged of all was M. -Mérinay. He wished to bathe his hands in the blood of those wretches. We +Mérinay. He wished to bathe his hands in the blood of those wretches. We accepted his services, but I offered to buy the game which he would bring back. He swelled out his little voice in the most comical fashion, and showing his fists to Mademoiselle, said that Hadgi-Stavros would @@ -6614,7 +6598,7 @@ have business to settle with him.</p> battle. Lobster became very merry at the thought of showing the bandits the progress he had made. Giacomo could not contain himself for joy; the corners of his mouth went around dangerously near his ears; he cracked -nuts with the face of a nut-cracker of Nuremburg. M. Mérinay had a halo +nuts with the face of a nut-cracker of Nuremburg. M. Mérinay had a halo around his head. He was no longer a man, but a pyrotechnic display.</p> <p>"Except us, the guests resembled alder trees. The pastry-cook's huge @@ -6777,7 +6761,7 @@ laundress had taken a dress to the Hotel des Etrangers. I enjoyed, in advance, Mary-Ann's surprise and joy. Christodule offered me a glass of Santorin wine. In this glorious beverage I thought to drink to liberty, riches, happiness. I mounted the staircase to my room, but before -retiring I knocked at M. Mérinay's door. He received me in the midst of +retiring I knocked at M. Mérinay's door. He received me in the midst of a medley of books and papers. "Dear sir, you see a man overwhelmed with work," he said. "I found, above the village of Castia, an antique inscription, which deprived me of the pleasure of fighting for you, and @@ -6805,7 +6789,7 @@ discovered a mile-stone such as one often sees on long roads, and that the inscription which has given you so much trouble can, without doubt, be translated thus:</p> -<p>"Stade, 22, 1851. Good evening, my dear M. Mérinay; I am going to write +<p>"Stade, 22, 1851. Good evening, my dear M. Mérinay; I am going to write to my father and then put on my red uniform."</p> <p>My letter to my parent was an ode, a hymn, a chant of happiness. The @@ -6821,7 +6805,7 @@ o'clock. "In this way," I said to myself, "they will rejoice in my happiness almost as soon as I shall."</p> <p>At a quarter to nine sharp I entered the Palace with John Harris. -Neither Lobster, M. Mérinay nor Giacomo were invited. My three-cornered +Neither Lobster, M. Mérinay nor Giacomo were invited. My three-cornered hat was a little rusty, but by candlelight this little defect was not noticeable. My sword was seven or eight centimetres too short; but what of that? Courage is not measured by the length of a sword, and I had @@ -7001,7 +6985,7 @@ between one and two, I will arrange your affairs."</p> <p>I passed a night much worse than those of my captivity. Harris slept with me, or rather, he did not sleep. We heard the carriages coming from -the ball, descend Rue d'Hèrmes with their freight of uniforms and +the ball, descend Rue d'Hèrmes with their freight of uniforms and toilets. About five o'clock, weariness closed my eyes. Three hours afterwards, Dimitri entered my room and said:</p> @@ -7038,7 +7022,7 @@ to count on nothing.</p> <p>Harris was en route for Japan. In one or two years I hoped to have news of him. The little Lobster had written me from Rome that he was still exercising with the pistol. Giacomo continued to seal letters all day -and crack nuts at night. M. Mérinay found a new interpretation from the +and crack nuts at night. M. Mérinay found a new interpretation from the inscription on the monument, one more clever than mine. His great work upon Demosthenes ought to be printed some day or other. The King of the Mountains made peace with the authorities. 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