[Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookPrince Otto CHAPTER III--IN WHICH THE PRINCE COMFORTS AGE AND BEAUTY AND DELIVERS A 20/27
It is, to-day, Tuesday.
On Thursday, before noon, the money shall be ready. Let us meet, if you please, in Mittwalden, at the "Morning Star."' 'I am, in all things lawful, your servant to command,' replied the farmer.
'An Englishman! You are a great race of travellers.
And has your lordship some experience of land ?' 'I have had some interest of the kind before,' returned the Prince; 'not in Gerolstein, indeed.
But fortune, as you say, turns the wheel, and I desire to be beforehand with her revolutions.' 'Very right, sir, I am sure,' said Mr.Killian. They had been strolling with deliberation; but they were now drawing near to the farmhouse, mounting by the trellised pathway to the level of the meadow.
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