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New Arabian Nights
- Pages
- about 369
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 6.8 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of
Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his
manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man
even by what was known of him; and that was but a small part of what he
actually did. Although of a placid temper in ordinary circumstances,
and accustomed to take the world with as much philosophy as any
ploughman, the Prince of Bohemia was not without a taste for ways of
life more adventurous and eccentric than that to which he was destined
by his birth. Now and then, when he fell into a low humour, when there
was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and
when the season of the year was unsuitable to those field sports in
which he excelled all competitors, he would summon his confidant and
Master of the Horse, Colonel Geraldine, and bid him prepare himself
against an evening ramble. The Master of the Horse was a young officer
of a brave and even temerarious disposition. He greeted the news with
delight, and hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied
acquaintance of life had given him a singular facility in disguise; he
could adapt not only his face and bearing, but his voice and almost his
thoughts, to those of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way
he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission
for the pair into strange societies. The civil authorities were never
taken into the secret of these adventures; the imperturbable courage of
the one and the ready invention and chivalrous devotion of the other
had brought them through a score of dangerous passes; and they grew in
confidence as time went on.
One evening in March they were driven by a sharp fall of sleet into an
Oyster Bar in the immediate neighbourhood of Leicester Square.
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