Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by the General Editors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introduction
- PRINCE OTTO
- Dedication
- Book I Prince Errant
- Book II Of Love and Politics
- Chapter 1 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LIBRARY
- Chapter 2 ‘ON THE COURT OF GRÜNEWALD,’ BEING A PORTION OF THE TRAVELLER'S MANUSCRIPT
- Chapter 3 THE PRINCE AND THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER
- Chapter 6 WHILE THE PRINCE IS IN THE ANTE-ROOM…
- Chapter 5 …GONDREMARK IS IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER
- Chapter 6 THE PRINCE DELIVERS A LECTURE ON MARRIAGE, WITH PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DIVORCE
- Chapter 7 THE PRINCE DISSOLVES THE COUNCIL
- Chapter 8 THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTION
- Chapter 9 THE PRICE OF THE RIVER FARM; IN WHICH VAIN-GLORY GOES BEFORE A FALL
- Chapter 10 GOTTHOLD'S REVISED OPINION; AND THE FALL COMPLETED
- Chapter 11 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE FIRST: SHE BEGUILES THE BARON
- Chapter 12 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE SECOND: SHE INFORMS THE PRINCE
- Chapter 13 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE THIRD: SHE ENLIGHTENS SERAPHINA
- Chapter 14 RELATES THE CAUSE AND OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION
- Book III Fortunate Misfortune
- Bibliographical Postscript
- Appendices
- Note on the Text
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes
Chapter 8 - THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTION
from Book II - Of Love and Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by the General Editors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introduction
- PRINCE OTTO
- Dedication
- Book I Prince Errant
- Book II Of Love and Politics
- Chapter 1 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LIBRARY
- Chapter 2 ‘ON THE COURT OF GRÜNEWALD,’ BEING A PORTION OF THE TRAVELLER'S MANUSCRIPT
- Chapter 3 THE PRINCE AND THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER
- Chapter 6 WHILE THE PRINCE IS IN THE ANTE-ROOM…
- Chapter 5 …GONDREMARK IS IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER
- Chapter 6 THE PRINCE DELIVERS A LECTURE ON MARRIAGE, WITH PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DIVORCE
- Chapter 7 THE PRINCE DISSOLVES THE COUNCIL
- Chapter 8 THE PARTY OF WAR TAKES ACTION
- Chapter 9 THE PRICE OF THE RIVER FARM; IN WHICH VAIN-GLORY GOES BEFORE A FALL
- Chapter 10 GOTTHOLD'S REVISED OPINION; AND THE FALL COMPLETED
- Chapter 11 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE FIRST: SHE BEGUILES THE BARON
- Chapter 12 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE SECOND: SHE INFORMS THE PRINCE
- Chapter 13 PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE THIRD: SHE ENLIGHTENS SERAPHINA
- Chapter 14 RELATES THE CAUSE AND OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION
- Book III Fortunate Misfortune
- Bibliographical Postscript
- Appendices
- Note on the Text
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes
Summary
Half an hour after, Gondremark was once more closeted with Seraphina.
‘Where is he now?’ she asked, on his arrival.
‘Madam, he is with the Chancellor,’ replied the Baron. ‘Wonder of wonders, he is at work!’
‘Ah,’ she said, ‘he was born to torture me! Oh, what a fall, what a humiliation! Such a scheme to wreck upon so small a trifle! But now all is lost.’
‘Madam,’ said Gondremark, ‘nothing is lost’. Something, on the other hand, is found. You have found your senses; you see him as he is—see him as you see everything where your too-good heart is not in question—with the judicial, with the statesman's eye. So long as he had a right to interfere, the empire that may be was still distant. I have not entered on this course without the plain foresight of its dangers; and even for this I was prepared. But, madam, I knew two things: I knew that you were born to command, that I was born to serve; I knew that by a rare conjuncture, the hand had found the tool; and from the first I was confident, as I am confident to-day, that no hereditary trifler has the power to shatter that alliance.'
‘I, born to command!’ she said. ‘Do you forget my tears?’
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- Prince Otto, by Robert Louis Stevenson , pp. 79 - 83Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014