THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND

By George Meredith



BOOK 4.

XXIII. MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY
XXIV. I MEET THE PRINCESS
XXV. ON BOARD A YACHT
XXVI. IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN'S BIRTHPLACE
XXVII. THE TIME OF ROSES
XXVIII. OTTILIA
XXIX. AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG
XXX. A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE
XXXI. PRINCESS OTTILIA'S LETTER
XXXII. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO



CHAPTER XXIII

MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY

Books and dreams, like the two rivers cited by my father, flowed side by
side in me without mixing; and which the bright Rhone was, which the
brown Arve, needs not to be told to those who know anything of youth;
they were destined to intermingle soon enough. I read well, for I felt
ground and had mounting views; the real world, and the mind and passions