Count Rober of Paris Author:Sir Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: But the opportunity was lost, and the dragon, or the creature who seemed such, sailed out at a side window upon its broad pennons, uttering loud wails of disappointment." Here ended the story of Agelastes. " The Princess," he said, " is still supposed to abide her doom in the Island of Zulichium, and several knights have undertaken the adventure; but I know not whether it was the fear of saluting the sleeping maiden, or that of approaching the dragon into which she was transformed, but so it is, the spell remains unachieved. I know the way, and if you say the word, you may be to-morrow on the road to the castle of enchantment." The Countess heard this proposal with the deepest anxiety, for ehe knew that she might, by opposition, determine her husband irrevocably upon following out the enterprise. She stood, therefore, with a timid and bashful look, strange in a person whose bearing was generally so dauntless, and prudently left it to the uninfluenced mind of Count Kobert to form the resolution which should best please him. " Brenhilda," he said, taking her hand, " fame and honour are dear to thy husband as ever they were to knight who buckled a brand upon his side. Thou hast done, perhaps, I may say, for me, what I might in vain have looked for from ladies of thy condition; and therefore thou mayst well expect a casting voice in such points ofdeliberation. Why dost thou wander by the side of a foreign and unhealthy shore instead of the banks of the lovely Seine? -- Why dost thou wear a dress unusual to thy sex? -- Why dost thou seek death, and think it little in comparison of shame i -- Why I but th...« less