{"id":"01KG8AKKBPZXEXDF1K1C33ZSJC","cid":"bafkreigxsj27m5neldevcgg4z2hzyg2obyufvuwynizm5sjcw4o23gi77m","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince\n\n## Overview\n\"CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince\" is a chapter extracted from a larger literary work, likely a novel, as indicated by its inclusion in the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. This chapter, identified by its title, spans lines 7983 to 8028 of its source text.\n\n## Context\nThis chapter is part of a sequence within a larger narrative. It immediately follows [CHAPTER LXXII. A Book From The Chronicles Of Mohi](arke:01KG8AKKB6T4G8VN7ARKBN98M4) and is contained within [CHAPTER LXXI. They Land Upon The Island Of Juam](arke:01KG8AJVHT17EPQFFPY4DKRKSD), suggesting a hierarchical structure where Chapter LXXI encompasses several sub-chapters. The text of this chapter was extracted from the digital file [mardi_vol1.txt](arke:01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK), which is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The extraction process was completed on January 30, 2026.\n\n## Contents\nThe chapter focuses on the character Donjalolo, detailing a significant change in his character after assuming the \"girdle\" and the permanent closure of Mardi to him. Previously known for temperance and discretion, Donjalolo succumbs to \"desperate courses\" and \"riotous scenes\" to cope with his emotions and the interdiction against abdication for kings of his isle. His generous spirit, yearning for an energetic career, finds itself confined to the \"little glen of Willamilla.\" The narrative describes his vacillation between vice and fleeting moments of repentance, haunted by specters and the ghosts of his ancestors, leading to increasingly insane excesses.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:15.943Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince","end_line":8028,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.388Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":7983,"text":"CHAPTER LXXIII.\r\nSomething More Of The Prince\r\n\r\n\r\nPrevious to recording our stay in his dominions, it only remains to be\r\nrelated of Donjalolo, that after assuming the girdle, a change came\r\nover him.\r\n\r\nDuring the lifetime of his father, he had been famed for his temperance\r\nand discretion. But when Mardi was forever shut out; and he remembered\r\nthe law of his isle, interdicting abdication to its kings; he gradually\r\nfell into desperate courses, to drown the emotions at times distracting\r\nhim.\r\n\r\nHis generous spirit thirsting after some energetic career, found itself\r\nnarrowed down within the little glen of Willamilla, where ardent\r\nimpulses seemed idle. But these are hard to die; and repulsed all\r\nround, recoil upon themselves.\r\n\r\nSo with Donjalolo; who, in many a riotous scene, wasted the powers\r\nwhich might have compassed the noblest designs.\r\n\r\nNot many years had elapsed since the death of the king, his father. But\r\nthe still youthful prince was no longer the bright-eyed and elastic boy\r\nwho at the dawn of day had sallied out to behold the landscapes of the\r\nneighboring isles.\r\n\r\nNot more effeminate Sardanapalus, than he. And, at intervals, he was\r\nthe victim of unaccountable vagaries; haunted by specters, and beckoned\r\nto by the ghosts of his sires.\r\n\r\nAt times, loathing his vicious pursuits, which brought him no solid\r\nsatisfaction, but ever filled him with final disgust, he would resolve\r\nto amend his ways; solacing himself for his bitter captivity, by the\r\nsociety of the wise and discreet.\r\n\r\nBut brief the interval of repentance. Anew, he burst into excesses, a\r\nhundred fold more insane than ever.\r\n\r\nThus vacillating between virtue and vice; to neither constant, and\r\nupbraided by both; his mind, like his person in the glen, was\r\ncontinually passing and repassing between opposite extremes.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER LXXIII. Something More Of The Prince"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJVHT17EPQFFPY4DKRKSD","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKKB6T4G8VN7ARKBN98M4","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.590Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:16.846Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}