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Project Gutenberg's Sir John Constantine, by Prosper Paleologus Constantine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Sir John Constantine Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad And Particularly In The Island Of Corsica: Beginning With The Year 1756 Author: Prosper Paleologus Constantine Editor: "Q" (A. T. Quiller-Couch) Release Date: April 6, 2005 [EBook #15565] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIR JOHN CONSTANTINE *** Produced by Lionel Sear SIR JOHN CONSTANTINE. MEMOIRS OF HIS ADVENTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD AND PARTICULARLY IN THE ISLAND OF CORSICA: BEGINNING WITH THE YEAR 1756. WRITTEN BY HIS SON PROSPER PALEOLOGUS OTHERWISE CONSTANTINE AND EDITED BY "Q" (A. T. QUILLER-COUCH). "For knighthood is not in the feats of warre, As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong, But in a cause which truth can not defarre He ought himself for to make sure and strong Justice to keep mixt with mercy among: And no quarrell a knight ought to take But for a truth, or for a woman's sake." TO THE READER A hundred and fifty episodes, two sermons, and a number of moral digressions, have been omitted from this story. The late ingenious Mr. Fett (whose acquaintance you will make in the following pages), having been commissioned by Mr. Dodsley, the publisher, to write a conspectus of the Present State of the Arts in Italy at two guineas the folio--a fair price for that class of work-- had delivered close upon two hundred folios before Mr. Dodsley interposed, professing unbounded admiration of the work, its style, and matter, but desiring to know when he might expect the end: "For," said he, "I have other enterprises which will soon be demanding attention, and, as a business-man, I like to make my arrangements in good time." To this Mr. Fett replied, that he, for his part, being well content with the rate of remuneration, did not propose to end the work at all!--and, the agreement, having unaccountably failed to stipulate for any such thing as a conclusion, Mr. Dodsley had to compound for one at a crippling price. So this story had
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