The Princess Aline
1895
The Princess Aline is a novelette by Richard Harding Davis, first published in 1895. The story follows Morton Carlton, a young and privileged portrait painter from New York City, who becomes infatuated with Princess Aline of Hohenwald after seeing her photograph. His romantic quest to meet her leads him on an adventurous journey to Europe, exploring themes of love, societal expectations, and personal ideals. The work was serialized in Harper's Monthly and became one of the best-selling novels in the United States that year.
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“Carlton turned and looked at her with strange wide-open eyes, as though he saw her for the first time. He felt so sure of himself and of his love for her that the happiness of it made him tremble, and the thought that if he spoke she might answer him in the old, friendly, mocking tone of good-fellowship filled him with alarm. At that moment it seemed to Carlton that the most natural thing in the world for them to do would be to go back again together over the road they had come, seeing everything in the new light of his love for her, and so travel on and on for ever over the world, learning to love each other more and more each succeeding day, and leaving the rest of the universe to move along without them.””
— Richard Harding Davis
