Excerpt from The Flight of the Princess: And Other Pieces Now, as I sit here, I begin to tell myself there was a Prince in fairy tales, who loved a thing of ice and folly; and under every trial, still loved on;' loved the ingrate, the traitor, the insolent and oh! Still loved, or so I tell myself; and when at last God sent a soul into his froward mistress, his great heart leapt up, and he forgave her all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.