[Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookPrince Otto CHAPTER XII--PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN: ACT THE SECOND 10/23
'You may signify my readiness,' he added grandly. 'Ah,' she said, 'you are more angry than you own.' 'I, madam? angry ?' he cried.
'You rave! I have no cause for anger.
In every way I have been taught my weakness, my instability, and my unfitness for the world.
I am a plexus of weaknesses, an impotent Prince, a doubtful gentleman; and you yourself, indulgent as you are, have twice reproved my levity.
And shall I be angry? I may feel the unkindness, but I have sufficient honesty of mind to see the reasons of this _coup d'etat_.' 'From whom have you got this ?' she cried in wonder.
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