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Prince Otto, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Title: Prince Otto a Romance
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: September 3, 2010 [eBook #372] First Posted: November 25, 1995
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1905 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
PRINCE OTTO--A ROMANCE
A ROMANCE
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
[Picture: Decorative graphic]
A NEW EDITION
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LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1905
TO NELLY VAN DE GRIFT (MRS. ADULFO SANCHEZ, OF MONTEREY)
At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to 'Prince Otto,' whom you will remember a very little fellow, no bigger in fact than a few sheets of memoranda written for me by your kind hand. The sight of his name will carry you back to an old wooden house embowered in creepers; a house that was far gone in the respectable stages of antiquity and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller in its younger days, and had come round the Horn piecemeal in the belly of a ship, and might have heard the seamen stamping and shouting and the note of the boatswain's whistle. It will recall to you the nondescript inhabitan