Conrad and Columbine Author:James Mason General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: William P. Nimmo Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scotti... more »sh, Welsh 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. OUT OF ONE TROUBLE AND INTO ANOTHER. j]O one needs to be told that the goat and the maiden were the enchanted Prince Roland and the Princess Columbine of the Golden-Country-beyond-the-Sea, The two were still journeying on, led by the golden ball, to the marble castle of the twenty-four damsels. And what did Columbine think of the strange rider behind on the white steed ? She loved him. No one could help doing that at first sight, he was so manly and handsome. And had it not been for the spell upon her and upon her brother, she would have waited for him, and gone through all the world with him gladly. Well, the Princess with her brother, and Conrad following in the distance, came to a steep hill, and when they had ridden slowly up it, and were turning to go down the other side, they saw before themAT THE MARBLE CASTLE. 27 the castle of the twenty-four damsels. Its walls were of white marble; and, as the sun shone on it, it looked like a patch of snow left by winter on the green grass of spring. About it were twenty- four lions, fastened up by silver chains, and with broad collars about their necks, of gold and diamonds. The golden ball ran down the hill, passed between the two largest lions, and stopped at the great gate. When the spell-bound Roland, bearing his sister, arrived there -- and the lions let them pass...« less