Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 101: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 93. discover it, and the most fearful chastisement would : crush this ravishing creature who, in spite of all his suspicions, all his jealousies, he loved above every- thing. If he had opened the door at this moment he might have seen Najeska Ivanowna, very pale, standing listening, her hands convulsively pressed against her breast. The prince was determined to watch all night, and wishing to inspect all himself, he made the tour of the apartments. Several entrances gave admittance to the hotel of the embassy. First, there was the door of honor for the master, the visitors and the more honored guests, then that which was reserved for the use of the domestics, the employes and the tradesmen. Then a third called the little private door, which gave on the garden with which all the windows at the back were on a level. When he footsteps of the servants were com- pletely extinguished, when a death-like silence seemed to cover with leaden wings the entire palace, when all appeared asleep except those who were watching the corpse, Mineleko went himself to assure himself that people and things were all in their proper places. He examined the windows of the saloons, he strengthened the bolts, he felt and shook feverishly all the exits, which, however, were firmly closed—nothing to fear on that side. At each of the two principal doors a sentinel was posted, left by the commissary of police. Some Caucasian servants of the prince were conversing in low tones with them. The garden entrance and the private exit, which appeared more-.appropriate for a clandestine visit, eomichbooks.com