Prince Zaleski by M. P. Shiel, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Detective, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

Having renounced the world, over which, lurid and inscrutable as a falling star, he had passed, the world quickly ceased to wonder at him; and even I, to whom, more than to another, the workings of that just and passionate mind had been revealed, half forgot him in the rush of things. But during the time that what was called the "Pharanx labyrinth" was exercising many of the heaviest brains in the land, my thought turned repeatedly to him; and even when the affair had passed from the general attention, a bright day in Spring, combined perhaps with a latent mistrust of the of that dark plot, drew me to his place of hermitage. I reached the gloomy abode of my friend as the sun set. . . .