title: Power & Glory: Brothers on the Journey
author: Harriette Bias-insignares
description: Since 1977, Dr. Harriette Bias-Insignares has served the state of Tennessee as its Official State Poet and Arts Advocate under the title Tennessee s Ambassador of Letters. To honor her for her many years of service to the people of Tennessee through poetry, Bias-Insignares was named the first Poet Laureate of Nashville.
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  # The Prisoner of Zenda
  
  
  ## Anthony Hope
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER 1. The Rassendylls--With a Word on the Elphbergs
  
  
  "I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?"
  
  
  said my brother's wife.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "My dear Rose," I answered, laying down my egg-spoon,
  
  
  "why in the world should I do anything? My position is a
  
  
  comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my
  
  
  wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know),
  
  
  I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to
  
  
  Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady,
  
  
  his countess. Behold, it is enough!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "You are nine-and-twenty," she observed, "and you've done
  
  
  nothing but--"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn't need to do things."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This remark of mine rather annoyed Rose, for everybody
  
  
  knows (and therefore there can be no harm in referring to the
  
  
  fact) that, pretty and accomplished as