The History of Rasselas and Elizabeth Author:Samuel Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: World Publishing House 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 ... more »you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Kasselas was so much delighted with a wider horizon that he could not foon be persuaded to return into the valley. He informed his sister that the way was open, and that nothing now remained but to oare for their departure. CHAPTER XV. THE riUNVr AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND 8KB KANT WONDKB8. HPHE prince and princess had jewels sufficient to make them rich whenever they came into a place of commerce, which, by Imlac's direction, they might hide in theii clothes; and, on the night of the next full moon, all left the valley. The princess was followed only by a single favourite, who did not know whither she was going. They clambered through the cavity, and began to go down on the other side. The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part, and, seeing nothing to bound their prospect, considered themselves as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity, They stopped and trembled. " I am almost afraid," said the princess, " to begin a journey of which I cannot perceive an end, and to venture into this immense plain, where I may be approached on every side by men whom I never saw." The prince felt nearly the same emotions, though he thought it more manly to conceal them. Imlac smiled at their terrors, and encouraged them to proceed: but the princess continued irresolute till she had been imperceptibly drawn forward too far to return. In the morning they found some shepherds in the field, who set milk and fruits before them. The princess wondered that she did not see a palace ready for her reception, and a table spread with delicacies; but...« less