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Carling - -Release Date: October 5, 2012 [EBook #40945] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHADOW OF THE CZAR *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40945 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -245,8 +207,8 @@ Little, Brown, and Company<br /> <p class="center p2">Published September, 1902</p> <hr class="l15a" /> -<p class="center s08">UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON<br /> -AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.</p> +<p class="center s08">UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON<br /> +AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.</p> <h2 class="p6">Contents</h2> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_V" id="Page_V">v</a></span></p> @@ -412,7 +374,7 @@ the same was procurable.</p> <p>At the time, however, when this story opens it seemed likely that if he slept at all, his slumbers would have to -be <i>à la belle étoile</i>, for he found himself late at night +be <i>à la belle étoile</i>, for he found himself late at night wandering in a deep pine-forest of Dalmatia.</p> <p>Paul's regiment—the Twenty-fourth Kentish—had @@ -628,7 +590,7 @@ of the New World than of an European forest.</p> <p>For several hours he walked, or rather stumbled along, in the darkness, wandering this way or that, as blind fancy directed, and haunted by the reflection that Bruin -might return with one of his <i>confrères</i>, eager to dine off +might return with one of his <i>confrères</i>, eager to dine off a too venturesome tourist.</p> <p>He had given himself up as hopelessly lost, when he @@ -1349,7 +1311,7 @@ mystery of her origin became solved, it would be found that she was of high birth.</p> <p>She had spread out her hands to the fire, and with her -face upturned to Paul, she said with charming <i>naïveté</i>,— +face upturned to Paul, she said with charming <i>naïveté</i>,— <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span></p> <p>"I am so glad that you insisted upon me accompanying @@ -2351,7 +2313,7 @@ each succeeding day seemed happier than the preceding.</p> <p>They entertained a dreamy notion that their life at Castel Nuovo would not last forever, but its end they put far from their thoughts. The golden present was all in -all. Why anticipate pain? <i>Vogue la galère.</i> +all. Why anticipate pain? <i>Vogue la galère.</i> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">46</a></span></p> <p>Lambro offered no opposition to their stay, though the @@ -2441,7 +2403,7 @@ not Poland achieve what Greece has achieved?"</p> <p>"They <i>will</i> be free again," she answered, a beautiful heroic look transfiguring her face with a new light. "Oh! Kosciusko," she cried, with an outburst of patriotism that -quite surprised Paul, "why did you say '<i>Finis Poloniæ</i>'? +quite surprised Paul, "why did you say '<i>Finis Poloniæ</i>'? Because <i>you</i> said it, men have come to believe it. No, no, it is not true. The greenstone sceptre of Poland may <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">48</a></span> @@ -2456,7 +2418,7 @@ to the Czar!"</p> <p>"Amen," said Lambro, responsive to the toast. "We had to assassinate old Capo d'Istria because he was too much under Russian influence. Ah! how we danced the -Romaïka the night he died!"</p> +Romaïka the night he died!"</p> <p>This remark of Lambro created a diversion, for Barbara, who had never seen the Greek national dance, asked @@ -2464,7 +2426,7 @@ him to describe it.</p> <p>The old Palicar did more than describe,—he acted it. Kicking his embroidered slippers into the air he went -through all the flings and evolutions of the Romaïka with +through all the flings and evolutions of the Romaïka with an agility surprising for one so aged, at the same time chanting an appropriate ballad.</p> @@ -3479,7 +3441,7 @@ both."</p> there does exist somewhere a rich Polish noble, whose infant daughter was lost or stolen away eighteen or nineteen years ago, but I do not believe that I am she, though -Ravenna would have me play the rôle of the missing +Ravenna would have me play the rôle of the missing heiress. But even if I were an empress—"</p> <p>Here Barbara paused in her utterance.</p> @@ -3689,7 +3651,7 @@ chance passing of some fishing-boat.</p> <p>He did not doubt—he could not doubt—that the abduction of Barbara was the work of Cardinal Ravenna, who had probably been apprised by Abbess Teresa of -the flight of his youthful <i>protégé</i>. It was not likely that +the flight of his youthful <i>protégé</i>. It was not likely that he would restore her to the Convent of the Holy Sacrament; some more secure establishment would be chosen, and, when Barbara was once immured by the authority @@ -3823,7 +3785,7 @@ at the pride of the Czernovese in their princess. Natalie Lilieska is more than beautiful,—she is Beauty's self."</p> <p>This interchange took place on an elevated balcony of -the Hôtel de Varsovie, the principal establishment of its +the Hôtel de Varsovie, the principal establishment of its kind in Slavowitz, the picturesque capital of the old Polish principality of Czernova.</p> @@ -4310,7 +4272,7 @@ her new state. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">89</a></span></p> <p>The landau of the princess had been stopped before the -Hôtel de Varsovie in order to enable her to address two +Hôtel de Varsovie in order to enable her to address two pedestrians, who, judging from the respect paid to them by the crowd, were persons of distinction in the little world of Czernova.</p> @@ -5169,7 +5131,7 @@ time with his fair lady friend. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">108</a></span></p> <p>He noticed the book and, moved by curiosity, picked it -up and found it to be a pocket-edition of the poet Æschylus +up and found it to be a pocket-edition of the poet Æschylus containing the Greek text of the seven plays without translation, note or comment.</p> @@ -5492,7 +5454,7 @@ contrived to secure his own way in the end.</p> premier, referring again to his despatch, "that the Czar's words and manner were regarded by all the ambassadors present as a distinct menace to your Highness. 'The annexation -of the principality,' and '<i>Finis Czernovæ</i>' passed +of the principality,' and '<i>Finis Czernovæ</i>' passed from lip to lip."</p> <p>"Czernova has survived many similar threats," said @@ -5594,7 +5556,7 @@ of his principal."</p> <p>"Oh! no, marshal," returned the princess, quickly. "No prisoner shall be put to the torture during my -<i>régime</i>. I am trying to civilize Czernova. The rack +<i>régime</i>. I am trying to civilize Czernova. The rack would indeed be a return to barbarism."</p> <p>"Then we must fall back upon our secretary, Trevisa, @@ -5634,7 +5596,7 @@ and then her face brightening, she added, "Surely not the Woodville of Tajapore renown?"</p> <p>"The very same," replied Radzivil. "He is staying -at the Hôtel de Varsovie. I had a—a brief conversation +at the Hôtel de Varsovie. I had a—a brief conversation with him this morning."</p> <p>At this moment the premier received from Zabern a @@ -5676,7 +5638,7 @@ being based upon the superior way in which they handled their guns. And of what nationality they were is shown by the fact that Russian words were frequently heard in <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">119</a></span> -the heat of the <i>mêlée</i>. Captain Woodville has already +the heat of the <i>mêlée</i>. Captain Woodville has already embodied his views in despatches which are now under the consideration of the British cabinet. We shall soon have a troubling of the diplomatic waters. Lord Palmerston, @@ -5728,7 +5690,7 @@ of his arrogant disposition, I knew that he, deeming himself above the law, would soon be engaging in another duel. And my plan has succeeded," continued the marshall with a triumphant chuckle. "This day the duke is -pledged to a duel with sabres. They fight <i>à la mort</i>,—that's +pledged to a duel with sabres. They fight <i>à la mort</i>,—that's the best of it. It's possible they may kill each other; if not, the alternatives are that the Englishman will slay the duke—and may the saints confer that boon @@ -5825,7 +5787,7 @@ His desire of bringing all Czernova within the papal fold was known to all men; not so well known, however, was his taste for amorous intrigue, though a physiognomist on studying his countenance would have said that Ravenna, -like Cæsar, never permitted pleasure to interfere with +like Cæsar, never permitted pleasure to interfere with ambition.</p> <p>Doffing his red beretta the cardinal bent his knee and @@ -6248,7 +6210,7 @@ she stood immovable, mute, scarcely breathing.</p> <p>"Isola Sacra was certainly submerged. We both saw that. But ere it sank the captive must have escaped, for a young Englishman calling himself Paul Cressingham -Woodville put up last evening at the Hôtel de Varsovie."</p> +Woodville put up last evening at the Hôtel de Varsovie."</p> <p>Barbara was powerless to speak, but the look in her eyes was a language that plainly said, "Is it the same?"</p> @@ -6257,7 +6219,7 @@ eyes was a language that plainly said, "Is it the same?"</p> <p>"The same. For verification I sent to the Police Bureau where strangers register themselves. These little -particulars on his <i>carte de séjour</i> leave no doubt on the +particulars on his <i>carte de séjour</i> leave no doubt on the matter."</p> <p>Here Ravenna drew forth a paper and began reading @@ -6296,7 +6258,7 @@ was awaking from her day-dream, and endeavoring to fix her attention upon him, he proceeded,—</p> <p>"Captain Woodville—to call him by his new name—saw -you this morning from the balcony of the Hôtel de +you this morning from the balcony of the Hôtel de Varsovie. Knowing that you cannot really be Natalie Lilieska he will, of course, conclude that you are an impostor."</p> @@ -6329,7 +6291,7 @@ to see him, to explain the difficulties of her position, to set matters right between them!</p> <p>Regardless of what court officials might think, she -would send an equerry this same day to the Hôtel de +would send an equerry this same day to the Hôtel de Varsovie with a message to the effect that the Princess of Czernova was desirous of an interview with Captain Paul Woodville.</p> @@ -6346,7 +6308,7 @@ put by the eager, fearful look of her eyes.</p> <p>"It seems that the duke and Captain Woodville—I crave your Highness's pardon, Captain Woodville and the -duke—met by chance on the balcony of the Hôtel de +duke—met by chance on the balcony of the Hôtel de Varsovie. A sapphire seal worn by the Englishman attracted the notice of the duke, inasmuch as he recognized it as a former gift of his to the Princess Natalie. The @@ -6559,7 +6521,7 @@ principality."</p> <p>Paul reflected a moment.</p> -<p>"The duel was to have been <i>à la mort</i>, and I came intending +<p>"The duel was to have been <i>à la mort</i>, and I came intending to kill or be killed, but your remark has set the matter in a different light. I cannot retire nor apologize without loss of honor, yet it is equally clear that I must @@ -7023,7 +6985,7 @@ said Paul.</p> the Moscow campaign. When Napoleon sounded the tocsin of war against Russia, who joined him with more enthusiasm than the Poles, eager to avenge their country's -wrongs? Did not his emissary, the Abbé de Pradt, +wrongs? Did not his emissary, the Abbé de Pradt, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">150</a></span> promise at Warsaw that his imperial master had determined to expel the Muscovites from Europe, and to @@ -7973,7 +7935,7 @@ route, though it is more circuitous. I renew my patriotism when in sight of that building."</p> <p>She had brought the troika to a standstill, and was now -pointing to a large monastery that rose in solemn mediæval +pointing to a large monastery that rose in solemn mediæval grandeur at the distance of about a hundred yards from the roadside.</p> @@ -8067,7 +8029,7 @@ reveal it. Ask the marshal to make you one of the Faster, faster, my little doves," she added, shaking the whip over the heads of her team.</p> -<p>Onward flew the horses <i>ventre à terre</i>, and within an +<p>Onward flew the horses <i>ventre à terre</i>, and within an hour of the time of setting out, there glimmered into view the battled walls of Slavowitz, with its towers, spires, and domes standing out in gray relief against a background @@ -8818,7 +8780,7 @@ name. Remember that I thought you dead. I have never forgotten you, nor ceased to love your memory. It was political necessity that drove me to the arms of Bora. On my coming here from Dalmatia in the character of -Princess Natalie, I was compelled by the <i>rôle</i> I had assumed +Princess Natalie, I was compelled by the <i>rôle</i> I had assumed to receive the addresses of the duke, addresses which I at heart loathed. It had been my intention to break with him ultimately; but of late, since I have been @@ -9165,7 +9127,7 @@ gently towards a mirror. "There! every inch a prince."</p> wear the crown of Czernova! The idea seemed too fantastic to be entertained. For the last four and twenty <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">198</a></span> -hours he seemed to have been playing a <i>rôle</i> in some +hours he seemed to have been playing a <i>rôle</i> in some romantic opera rather than to have been living in the world of reality.</p> @@ -9660,8 +9622,8 @@ a fair lady to the cavalier who was bending over her.</p> <p>"He suffered a prisoner to escape yesterday," replied her partner, "and as a consequence he had a <i>mauvais -quart d'heure</i> with the princess this morning. <i>Hinc illæ -lacrimæ.</i>"</p> +quart d'heure</i> with the princess this morning. <i>Hinc illæ +lacrimæ.</i>"</p> <p>"Captain Woodville ought now to give his arm a rest," cried Katina.</p> @@ -9889,15 +9851,15 @@ it we could just discern the title."</p> <p>"And that was—?"</p> -<p>"'The Plays of Æschylus.' Now why should the duke +<p>"'The Plays of Æschylus.' Now why should the duke desire to destroy his copy of the Greek poet?"</p> <p>"He had a motive, I warrant, and that a powerful one. I wish, Miroslav, you had secured the volume in time. -Æschylus, Æschylus," repeated Zabern, thoughtfully. +Æschylus, Æschylus," repeated Zabern, thoughtfully. "My classical scholarship has long since evaporated, but if I remember rightly," he added, his countenance suddenly -lighting up with a new idea, "Æschylus wrote a play +lighting up with a new idea, "Æschylus wrote a play called 'The Furies.'"</p> <p>"True, marshal," replied Paul. "'The Eumenides' or @@ -10494,7 +10456,7 @@ hold upon the duke."</p> <p>Paul here ventured to remind the marshal of Bora's <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">228</a></span> suspicious conduct in burning his copy of the poet -Æschylus.</p> +Æschylus.</p> <p>"True," replied Zabern, "that the cipher despatch depends for its solution upon 'The Eumenides,' and equally @@ -11309,7 +11271,7 @@ none knew better than Barbara herself that her triumph was merely temporary, and that Russia would return to the charge at the first opportunity.</p> -<p>The assembly broke up. Orloff went back to the Hôtel +<p>The assembly broke up. Orloff went back to the Hôtel de Varsovie, and summoning those of his suite who had not attended him to the Vistula Palace, he set off immediately for Russia. The Duke of Bora, with bitterness @@ -11353,7 +11315,7 @@ dancing?"</p> <p>"And such have I. But the masquerade held this evening by command of the princess is something more than a -mere <i>fête</i>; it is a cloak to cover a certain political enterprise—what, +mere <i>fête</i>; it is a cloak to cover a certain political enterprise—what, you shall learn when the time comes. Captain Woodville," added Zabern, mysteriously, "at the bal masque of to-night history will be made. Till then, farewell."</p> @@ -12173,7 +12135,7 @@ course; and many of our side, charmed with the idea of a three years' remission of taxation, likewise cast their suffrages in favor of the bill. The members of our party do not know the reason why the ministry are so anxious -to throw the ægis of their protection over the convents, +to throw the ægis of their protection over the convents, and, of course, we dare not take them into our confidence. The result is, and with extreme regret I announce it to your Highness, that the second reading of the Appropriation @@ -12294,7 +12256,7 @@ True, Abbot Faustus can destroy the treasonable documents; yet, nevertheless, here will be found, because impossible to be annihilated or concealed, a vast store of gold, rifles for one hundred thousand men, and other -war <i>matériel</i>. Vain would it be for the Czernovese ministry +war <i>matériel</i>. Vain would it be for the Czernovese ministry to put an innocent interpretation upon their attempts to keep the interior workings of this convent from public view. The Czar would be wanting in common sense if @@ -14117,7 +14079,7 @@ greatly offending the Catholics."</p> <p>Though maintaining a calm exterior, the cardinal nevertheless listened with secret dismay, for her words were the very death-knell of his ambition. By using the -princess as his instrument he had hoped to play the <i>rôle</i> +princess as his instrument he had hoped to play the <i>rôle</i> of a Richelieu in Czernova, and to be the supreme director of affairs, secular as well as ecclesiastical. By reason of his supposed conversion of a Greek princess @@ -15949,7 +15911,7 @@ Natalie was not the first. You were ever eloquent in persuading youthful widows and maidens to renounce the world and to take the veil. It was your practice to escort your victims to some convent in Dalmatia, and the journey -was always broken at Castel Nuovo. When your <i>protégées</i> +was always broken at Castel Nuovo. When your <i>protégées</i> left that place they had good reason for wishing to hide themselves in a convent.</p> @@ -16382,7 +16344,7 @@ greatly shocked by the tragedy, and completely ignorant as to its authors. "The physicians assert that there are no less than eighteen wounds upon the body."</p> -<p>"Five less than Julius Cæsar received," commented +<p>"Five less than Julius Cæsar received," commented Zabern irrelevantly.</p> <p>"You offer a reward, I presume, for any information @@ -16721,7 +16683,7 @@ to Natalie Lilieska, the lawfully born daughter of the Princess Stephanie, and not to the Barbara of doubtful origin."</p> -<p>It was too late now to recede from the <i>rôle</i> she had +<p>It was too late now to recede from the <i>rôle</i> she had assumed, and so amid shouting multitudes she rode on, her progress from the palace to the cathedral being one continuous scene of triumph, unmarred by anything of a @@ -16950,7 +16912,7 @@ lection was neither appointed beforehand nor chosen by the ecclesiastic officiating; it was left to the guidance of chance, or rather, as the Czernovese themselves believed, to the will of the Deity. The lector, following a -usage of mediæval times, was required to open the holy +usage of mediæval times, was required to open the holy volume at random and to read the first chapter upon which his eye should happen to light. It was believed that the portion thus hit on would contain something applicable @@ -17316,7 +17278,7 @@ God, there'll be slaughter now."</p> <p>It was indeed the famous hymn of Saint Adalbert, the anthem accustomed to be sung in old time by the Poles -when moving forward to battle, the pæan that has struck +when moving forward to battle, the pæan that has struck terror to the heart of Muscovite, Tartar, and Turk in those brave days when Poland was the bulwark of Christendom against the barbarism of the East.</p> @@ -17393,7 +17355,7 @@ apparition rendered the command unnecessary.</p> <p>"Down with your arms!"</p> <p>The voice in which these words were uttered rose like -thunder above the <i>mêlée</i>, compelling even the two long +thunder above the <i>mêlée</i>, compelling even the two long lines of combatants to pause and turn their eyes towards the speaker. On the edge of the choir, and with hand uplifted, stood a stately figure clothed in a brilliant and @@ -17917,7 +17879,7 @@ Orloff."</p> can take place without occasion of profanation."</p> <p>"Faustus, thou reasonest well. Gentlemen, we have -heard the voice of the Church. <i>Fiat voluntas ecclesiæ.</i> +heard the voice of the Church. <i>Fiat voluntas ecclesiæ.</i> Let the combat take place here, and now."</p> <p>"Good!" commented Paul, who had listened in silence @@ -18093,7 +18055,7 @@ title."</p> <p>The two duellists did not immediately take to the sword and engage. The coronation-rubric prescribed certain -formalities—relics of a mediæval usage—in connection +formalities—relics of a mediæval usage—in connection with the championing of the sovereign; and these a herald, dressed in the quaint antique costume of his office, proceeded to carry out.</p> @@ -18262,7 +18224,7 @@ whereby the law of Heaven may be abased, or the law of Satan be exalted. So help me God and His saints!"</p> -<p>Very absurd and mediæval, no doubt, but being a part +<p>Very absurd and mediæval, no doubt, but being a part of the ancient ritual its enunciation was required from each champion.</p> @@ -18312,7 +18274,7 @@ the result.</p> was likewise in his element. He sat, bent forward, resting the point of his sabre upon the pavement, and his hands upon the hilt, prepared to view the display of -swordsmanship with the critical eye of a <i>maître d'armes</i>, +swordsmanship with the critical eye of a <i>maître d'armes</i>, as confident in the triumph of Bora as Zabern was in that of Paul.</p> @@ -18412,7 +18374,7 @@ trembling by the Polish spectators, who felt that it was a fight betwixt liberty and despotism; a mortal thrust on <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407">407</a></span> the part of the duke would leave them but a shadow of -that freedom which they had enjoyed under the <i>régime</i> +that freedom which they had enjoyed under the <i>régime</i> of the princess.</p> <p>Many of the ladies present, unable to endure the sight, @@ -18763,7 +18725,7 @@ he listened with considerable warmth and indignation as his visitor went on to describe the insidious attempts made by Russia to undermine the independence of Czernova.</p> -<p>At this particular date Russia was the <i>bête noire</i> of +<p>At this particular date Russia was the <i>bête noire</i> of Lord Palmerston, who had long viewed with misgiving the continual advance of that Power in the direction of India. He had learned from the despatches forwarded @@ -18854,7 +18816,7 @@ filled with an exquisite sense of joy! She was now free from the imputation of illegitimacy. She could assume her rightful name instead of masquerading under a false guise. The sword of Paul had kept her throne from becoming -the prize of the duke; and, thanks to the ægis +the prize of the duke; and, thanks to the ægis of Britain, Czernova was safe from the aggression of Russia.</p> @@ -18895,7 +18857,7 @@ following words,—</p> <p>"At noon convent blew up with tremendous explosion. Building and inmates reduced to atoms. Some of -our men injured by falling débris, but none killed.—<span class="smcap">Dorislas.</span>"</p> +our men injured by falling débris, but none killed.—<span class="smcap">Dorislas.</span>"</p> <p>Barbara's face saddened.</p> @@ -19138,382 +19100,6 @@ century before Christ.</p> <span class="b12"><i>254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.</i></span></p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Shadow of the Czar, by John R. 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