New Arabian Nights
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Stevenson, Robert Louis
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
publisher: Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
source: nights.txt
subject: man
subject: prince
subject: time
subject: house
subject: northmour
subject: internet
subject: wiretap
subject: electronic
subject: edition
subject: arabian
subject: nights
subject: robert
subject: louis
subject: stevenson
subject: edinburgh
subject: john
subject: hamm
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subject: domain
subject: english
subject: literature
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sort title: New Arabian Nights
full text: THE INTERNET WIRETAP ELECTRONIC EDITION OF New Arabian Nights By Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Edition 1895 Prepared by John Hamm <John_Hamm@MindLink.bc.ca> This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, released November 1993 Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation. To Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson in grateful remembrance of their youth and their already old affection NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS Originally published, 'London,' June 8 to October 26, 1878. First Collected Edition: Chatto and Windus, London, 1882. THE SUICIDE CLUB STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS DURING his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even by what was known of him; and that was but a small part of what he actually did. Although of a placid temper in ordinary circumstances, and accustomed to take the world with as much philosophy as any ploughman, the Prince of Bohemia was not without a taste for ways of life more adventurous and eccentric than that to which he was destined by his birth. Now and then, when he fell into a low humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those field sports in which he excelled all competitors, he would summon his confidant and Master of the Horse, Colonel Geraldine, and bid him prepare himself against an evening ramble. The Master of the Horse was a young officer of a brave and even temerarious disposition. He greeted the news with delight, and hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied acquaintance of life had given him a singular facility in disguise; he could adapt, not only his face and bearing, but his voice and almost his thoughts, to those of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into st…