Contarini Fleming Alroy Romances Author:Benjamin Disraeli Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: XX. 'Bpr, my dear friend, you have lodged, you have fed, you have befriended, you have supported me. If my father were to know that we parted thus, he would n... more »ever forgive me. Pray, pray, tell me,' ' Prithee, no more. You have told me your name, which is against my rules; you know mine, no one of my fellow-travellers ever did before; tnd yet you are not contented. You grow unreasonable- Did I not say that, if our acquaintance were worth maintaining, we should meet again ? Well! I say the same thing now—and so good bye.' 'Dear Sir, pray, pray ' 'This is my direction—your course lies over tliat bridge—look sharp about you, and do not enter into your private world, for the odds are yon may find your friend Count Frederick picking a pocket. Good morning, little man.' We parted. I crossed the bridge. The stir of man seemed strange after the silence of the woods. I did not feel quite at my ease; my heart a little misgave me. I soon reached the street in whichmy father resided. I thought of the woodman's cottage, and the careless days I had spent under that simple roof. I wished myself once more by Schinkel's oak, talking"! of Araby the blest with that strange man, with whom my acquaintance, although so recent, seemed now only a dream. Did he really exist; were they all real beings with whom I seemed lately to have consorted? Or had I indeed been all this time plunged in one of my incurable reveries ? I thought of the laughing girl, and Tier dark sentimental friend. I felt for the chain, which I always wore round my neck. It was gone. No doubt, then, it must all be true. I had reached the gate. I uttered an involuntary sigh. I took up the knocker. It was for a moment suspended. I thought of the Contarinis, and my feeble knock hurried into a sharp rap. I entered. "Tis a n...« less