Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 136: what you’re looking at

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128 HER ROYAL LOVER. “How happy this promenade makes me!” said the king, suddenly, as if coming out of an agreeable reverie. “Are you fatigued, madam?” “T have told your majesty, that I am rarely fatigued.” This affirmation was so much in opposition with the frail and delicate appearance of the young lady, that the king, whose heart was very easily affected, gently pressed her arm, and said to her, lovingly: “1 fear very much, princess, that your great self- forgetfulness often deludes you about your strength, about your faculty of enduring everything without complaining. You always affirm that your health is good, anda smile always beams upon your lips, but, however——” Fearing to have acquainted her too much with his thought, Charles Ferdinand XVIII was suddenly silent. “But, however what?’ demanded the young woman, tranquilly. “Well! since you force me to sued, I will explain to you all that which this ‘however’ signifies. The heaviness of that chain, which rivets you to that jealous man—who must often make you tremble—is a mystery to no one. Kverybody knows how violent and passionate he is; he is so much go, that one may often be unjust in respect to him. But, then, if it was not for the testimony of Geheimrath Schlotz, who administered the opiate to him, the same night as the murder of your domestic, he would have certainly incurred a terrible danger; ambassador though he is. “Sire, sire! you are not going to suspect my hus- band of being an assassin ?” m Gomicbooksi co