Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 13: what you’re looking at

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PREFACE. To HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS: Madame La Princess:—Y our Imperial Highness will recollect how much we have both been affected by the cruel fate of the heroine of this narrative? If I have desired to relate it thus to the world, it is not merely to prove that that which appears the most improbable is often but too true in life, but in order to demonstrate how, stifling the cries of conscience, wounded vanity and pride, in its demoniacal hideousness, can crush the innocent. To the great of the earth I dedicate this book, who imagine they have the right to violate the laws even, and forget, in the intoxication of their haughty arrogance, that above them there is one greater than they—God! and that he will measure his justice to them according to the measure that they have meted to their victims. Marble hearts form ice around them. It is in these mirrors that they must look, in order to see themselves such as they are. Always and forever thine, madam, A, E. PERM, Siberia, October, 1885. (E(@) mn G JOO ES (Cl @)