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 11 - PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE FIRST: SHE BEGUILES THE BARON
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
At a sufficiently late hour, or to be more exact, at three in the afternoon, Madame von Rosen issued on the world. She swept downstairs and out across the garden, a black mantilla thrown over her head, and the long train of her black velvet dress ruthlessly sweeping in the dirt.
At the other end of that long garden, and back to back with the villa of the Countess, stood the large mansion where the Prime Minister transacted his affairs and pleasures. This distance, which was enough for decency by the easy canons of Mittwalden, the Countess swiftly traversed, opened a little door with a key, mounted a flight of stairs, and entered unceremoniously into Gondremark's study. It was a large and very high apartment; books all about the walls, papers on the table, papers on the floor; here and there a picture, somewhat scant of drapery; a great fire glowing and flaming in the blue tiled hearth; and the daylight streaming through a cupola above. In the midst of this sat the great Baron Gondremark in his shirt-sleeves, his business for that day fairly at an end, and the hour arrived for relaxation. His expression, his very nature, seemed to have undergone a fundamental change. Gondremark at home appeared the very antipode of Gondremark on duty. He had an air of massive jollity that well became him; grossness and geniality sat upon his features; and along with his manners, he had laid aside his sly and sinister expression.
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- Prince Otto, by Robert Louis Stevenson , pp. 100 - 104Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014