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112 HER ROYAL LOVER. young married woman! But she had always re- mained faithful to him, however; never until the accursed day of their arrival in Thessaly had she failed in the solemn engagements of her marriage. But this passionate king, poet and accomplished gentleman, was making a profound impression on her heart. “All in her,” he said to himself, “was changed; her lips, chaste from all lies, had not feared to boldly deny the fault, perhaps the com- mitted crime. What art she had displayed to dis- suade him from that ‘supposed vision!’ Oh! the king! the miserable king, traitor, thief and proba- bly assassin, how he would avenge himself !” Mineleko, after having allowed his rage of the sav- age beast to evaporate, commenced to reflect on the means by which he would be revenged on him who was taking from him happiness and tranquillity, on him who had perhaps drawn his wife in the com- _ plicity of a horrible crime. He wished to strike in such a manner that, in his turn, this sovereign would be punished according to his deserts, and that he would feel all the torments which he himself was enduring. To punish a king!—that is not an easy matter! Buta jealous man isa resolute man; the ambassador will struggle until his last breath; his perseverance will never slaken; it will be as long as his life. How much a man is to be feared who awakes in the morning with the same fixed idea with which he has gone to bed the day before. His strength is invulnerable. It will even destroy a king. The kingdom of Thessaly, small as it was, included a great number of malcontents whose complaints were added to those of the unfortunate. This state of affairs was not unknown to the ambassador, It Gomicghbooks.com