Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 127: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 119 first, then, extending his hand to the ambassadress, he seated her opposite to him. The jealous husband, losing his presence of mind, was preparing to enter quickly in a second bark, which was to follow near the first, when the master of ceremonies stopped him. | “This wherry is prepared for the Princess Agusta and her fiance,” said obsequiously and very politely the chamberlain to the ambassador. Where and with whom was Mineleko put? Per- haps he would never had known, for all his attention was concentrated upon the light bark which was bearing away the king and his wife, if feeling a hand falling upon his shoulder, he had not recovered consciousness. It was that of the young Count de Heiligenthal, almost as dismayed as himself. In- stinctively, the prince felt that the heart of this young man was filled with as much bitterness as his own. Why does jealousy render the perceptions more acute? In truth, with the first glance of the eye cast on Heiligenthal, the ambassador saw to what an extent this man loved his wife; he divined that he also was, equally, tortured by the attentions of the king. What were the sensations which took possession of the unhappy husband, between his jealousy against the king, and that which Heiligenthal in- spired in him? “They appear very gay, very happy!” the young count said, bitterly, to the prince. Mineleko did not answer. He was thinking— which, of those two men, like him adoring the per- fidious woman, could he strangle with the greatest > ecomicbooks.com