Prince Zilah -- Volume 1

ut pray tell me what ve

as rapidly writing in a note-book with a large combination pencil, containing a knife, a pen, spare leads,

tily off, and extended it to a boy in dark blue livery with silver buttons, bearing the

ete on board one of the boats belo

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s approaching ma

if he knew the name well; "Prince Andras is to b

s a Hungaria

in a hurry, and, handing ano

ests by a sailor. They can prepare the article from what you have, and set it up in adva

, Monsieur

lose any of

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, in reading the names-they are all quee

obtain all the information he could, "those people

in, visibly annoyed. "There are many foreigners in the city, ver

from the parapet, telling all the people he met: "It is a fete! Prince Andras, a Hungarian,

forth long puffs of white smoke along the bank. A band of dark- complexioned musicians, clad in red trousers, black waistcoats heavily embroidered in sombre colors, and round fur caps, played odd airs upon the deck; while bevies of laughing women, almost all pretty in their light summer gowns, alighted from coupes and barouches, descended the flight of steps leading to the river, and crossed the plank to the boat, with little coquettish graces and studied raising of the skirts, allowing ravishing

July morning, to a breakfast in the open air, be

lah Sandor, who was the last, in 1849, to hold erect the tattered standard of his country, had been prodigal of his invitations, summoning to his side his few intimate friends, the sharers of his solitude and

four, the Prince was bidding farewell to his bachelor life: it was no folly, and Yanski saw with delight that the ancient race of the Zilahs, from time immemorial servants of p

home of his own by marriage. A little late, but with heart still warm, his spirit young and ardent, and his body strengthened rather than worn out by life, Prince Andras gave to a woman's keeping his whole being, his soul with his name, the one as great as the other. He was about to marry a girl of his own choice, whom he loved romantically; and he wished to give a surrounding of poetic gayety to this farewell to the past, this greeting to the future. The men of

rs, farmers, sowers, and gleaners? No, certainly not; I would no more take that money

es of two hundred masons for an entire year, employed these men in constructing chateaux, which he b

ut two hundred at this time, when only six hundred families were proprietors of six thousand acres of Hungarian soil, the nobles of Great Britain possessing not more than five thousand in England. The Prince of Lichtenstein entertained for a week the Emperor of Austria, his staff and

-half of it confiscated by Austria in 1849, and enormous sums expended for the national cause, Hungarian emigrants and proscribed compatriots. Zila

nd bizarre society, of different nationalities; an assemblage of exotic personages, such as are met with only in Paris in certain peculiar places where aristocracy touches Bohemianism, and nobles mingle with quasi-adventurers; a kaleidoscopic society, grafting its vices upon Parisian follies, coming to inhale the aroma and absorb the poison of Paris, adding thereto strange intoxications, and forming, in the immense agglomeration of the old French city, a

tache, continued to take down, as the cortege defiled before him, the list of the invited guests: and upon the leaves fell, briskly traced, names printed a hundred times a day in Parisian chronicles among the reports of the races of first representations at the theatres;

Zilah in wealth, owned whole counties somewhere in England; great Cuban lords, compromised in the latest insurrections and condemned to death in Spain; Peruvian statesmen, publicists, and military chiefs at once, masters of the tongue, the pen, and the revolver; a crowd of originals, even a Ja

gangway leading to the boat, and, spreading about on the deck, gazed at the banks and the houses, or listened to the czardas which the H

, bright sunshine enveloped the whole boat with a golden aureole, joy