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Prince Zaleski
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Title: Prince Zaleski
Author: M.P. Shiel
Release Date: January 13, 2004 [EBook #10709]
Language: English
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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 f