sea. Gray not only saved his money, but being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession, and he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship, married besides, and the father of a family. As for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or to be more exact, in nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth. Then he was given a lodge to keep, exactly as he had feared upon the island; and he still lives, a great favourite, though something of a butt, with the country boys, and a notable singer in church on Sundays and saints’ days.
Of Silver we have heard no more. That formidable seafaring man with one leg has at last gone clean out of my life; but I dare say he met his old Negress, and perhaps still lives in comfort with her and Captain Flint. It is to be hoped so, I suppose, for his chances of comfort in another world are very small.
The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: “Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”
The End
Prince Otto
A Romance
Chapter I. In which the Prince Departs on an Adventure
Chapter II. In which the Prince Plays Haroun-Al-Raschid
Chapter IV. In which the Prince Collects Opinions by the Way
Chapter I. What Happened in the Library
Chapter II. ‘On the Court of Grünewald,’ Being a Portion of the Traveller’s Manuscript
Chapter III. The Prince and the English Traveller
Chapter IV. While the Prince is in the Anteroom . . .
Chapter V. … Gondremark is in My Lady’s Chamber
Chapter VI. The Prince Delivers a Lecture on Marriage, with Practical Illustrations of Divorce
Chapter VII. The Prince Dissolves the Council
Chapter VIII. The Party of War Takes Action
Chapter IX. The Price of the River Farm; In which Vainglory Goes before a Fall
Chapter X. Gotthold’s Revised Opinion; And the Fall Completed
Chapter XI. Providence von Rosen: Act the First She Beguiles the Baron
Chapter XII. Providence von Rosen: Act the Second She Informs the Prince
Chapter XIII. Providence von Rosen: Act the Third She Enlightens Seraphina
Chapter XIV. Relates the Cause and Outbreak of the Revolution
Book III. Fortunate Misfortune
Chapter I. Princess Cinderella
Chapter II. Treats of a Christian Virtue
Chapter III. Providence von Rosen: Act the Last In which She Gallops Off
Bibliographical Postscript to Complete the Story
Book I
Prince Errant
Chapter I
In which the Prince Departs on an Adventure
You shall seek in vain upon the map of Europe for the bygone state of Grünewald. An independent principality, an infinitesimal member of the German Empire, she played, for several centuries, her part in the discord of Europe; and, at last, in the ripeness of time and at the spiriting of several bald diplomatists, vanished like a morning ghost. Less fortunate than Poland, she left not a regret behind her; and the very memory of her boundaries has faded.
It was a patch of hilly country covered with thick wood. Many streams took their beginning in the glens of Grünewald, turning mills for the inhabitants. There was one town, Mittwalden, and many brown, wooden hamlets, climbing roof above roof, along the steep bottom of dells, and communicating by covered bridges over the larger of the torrents. The hum of watermills, the splash of running water, the clean odour of pine sawdust, the sound and smell of the pleasant wind among the innumerable army of the mountain pines, the dropping fire of huntsmen, the dull stroke of the wood-axe, intolerable roads, fresh trout for supper in the clean bare chamber of an inn, and the song of birds and the music of the village-bells — these were the recollections of the Grünewald tourist.
North and east the foothills of Grünewald sank with varying profile into a vast plain. On these sides many small states bordered with the principality, Gerolstein, an extinct grand duchy, among the number. On the south it marched with the comparatively powerful kingdom of Seaboard Bohemia, celebrated for its flowers and mountain bears, and inhabited by a people of singular simplicity and tenderness of heart. Several intermarriages had, in the course of centuries, united the crowned families of Grünewald and Maritime Bohemia; and the last Prince of Grünewald, whose