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Prince Otto

CHAPTER III--THE PRINCE AND THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER
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Thus regularised, he returned it to Otto with a bow.
'You will now,' said the Prince, 'order one of my own carriages to be prepared; see it, with your own eyes, charged with Sir John's effects, and have it waiting within the hour behind the Pheasant House.

Sir John departs this morning for Vienna.' The Chancellor took his elaborate departure.
'Here, sir, is your passport,' said Otto, turning to the Baronet.

'I regret it from my heart that you have met inhospitable usage.' 'Well, there will be no English war,' returned Sir John.
'Nay, sir,' said Otto, 'you surely owe me your civility.

Matters are now changed, and we stand again upon the footing of two gentlemen.

It was not I who ordered your arrest; I returned late last night from hunting; and as you cannot blame me for your imprisonment, you may even thank me for your freedom.' 'And yet you read my papers,' said the traveller shrewdly.
'There, sir, I was wrong,' returned Otto; 'and for that I ask your pardon.


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