Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947 / 2008-07-25 00:00:00
EBOOK PRINCE ZALESKI ***
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PRINCE ZALESKI
M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel
_Come now, and let us reason together._
ISAIAH
_Of the strange things that befell the valiant Knight in the Sable
Mountain; and how he imitated the penance of Beltenebros._
CERVANTES
[Greek: All'est'ekeino panta lekta, panta de tolmaeta;]
SOPHOCLES
1895
TO
MY DEAR MOTHER
CONTENTS
The Race of Orven
The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks
The S.S.
THE RACE OF ORVEN
Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince
Zaleski--victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the
fulgor of the throne itself could not abash; exile perforce from his
native land, and voluntary exile from the rest of men! Having renounced
the world, over which, lurid and inscrutable as a falling star, he had
passed, the world quickly ceased to wonder at him; and even I, to whom,
more than to another, the workings of that just and passionate mind had
been revealed, half forgot him in the rush of things.
But during the time that what was called the 'Pharanx labyrinth' was
exercising many of the heaviest brains in the land, my thought turned
repeatedly to him; and even when the affair had passed from the general
attention, a bright day in Spring, combined perhaps with a latent
mistrust of the _denoument_ of that dark plot, drew me to his place of
hermitage.
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