The Prisoner of ZendaAn Englishman vacationing in Rutitania, discovers he is a double of Rudolf V, shortly to be crowned king. When Rudolf is abducted by his evil half-brother, the Englishman agrees to an impersonation during the coronation. He falls in love with the Princess, but recognizing her responsibility to the throne, she refuses to leave with him. |
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answered Antoinette de Mauban asked Sapt Bersonin Black Michael body kissed bowed bridge brother Burlesdon castle of Zenda cellar château Colonel Sapt cousin cried crown dead dear Detchard door drawbridge Duke of Strelsau duke's Elphberg eyes face Featherly fellow flat cap flung friends Fritz von Tarlenheim Gautet gentlemen girl glance hair hand head heard honor horses Jacob's ladder Johann Josef kill King of Ruritania king's kissed lady laughed lodge looked madame Majesty marshal moat mustache night old Sapt pipe play pray Princess Flavia PRISONER OF ZENDA revolver ride rode rose round Rudolf Rassendyll Rupert Hentzau Rupert of Hentzau rush Sapt and Fritz Sapt's servants shoulder side sire smile stood Strakencz suddenly sword tell there's thing thought throne to-night told took turned voice waiting whispered Sapt window woman wounded young Rupert
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Page 56 - " Well, Fritz wants you to march to the Castle with horse, foot, and artillery." " And drag the moat ? " I asked. " That would be about it," grinned Sapt ; " and we shouldn't find the King's body then." " You think it's certain he's there ? " " Very probable. Besides the fact of those three being there, the drawbridge is kept up, and no one goes in without an order from young Hentzau or Black Michael himself. We must tie Fritz up." " I'll go to Zenda," said I.
Page 107 - We were sword to sword. By blessed chance neither he nor Bersonin had been wearing their revolvers. I found them afterward, ready loaded, on the mantelpiece of the outer room; it was hard by the door, ready to their hands, but my sudden rush in had cut off access to them. Yes, we were man to man: and we began to fight, silently, sternly, and hard. Yet I remember little of it, save that the man was my match with the sword — nay, and more, for he knew more tricks than I; and that he forced me back...
Page 30 - Spacious modern boulevards and residential quarters surround the narrow tortuous and picturesque streets of the original town.