Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 142: what you’re looking at

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134 ¥: HER ROYAL LOVER. the great confidence which he could repose in this lovely, noble creature! With her kind, her habitually indulgent insou- ciance, the ambassadress quickly forgot that which had just taken place. They had now arrived at the pavilion. The king gently pushed the door open, and Najeska Ivanowna entered into the little marble temple. Asif she had divined a peril in remaining alone with this en- amored man, the beautiful amazon, light as a hind, sprang from an open window from whence the land- scape was visible. “Goodness! what a magnificent view!” cried she, enraptured by the splendor of the panorama which was unfolded before her. | Indeed, there was nothing more beautiful than the site chosen for the Parc-aux-Cerfs. In this little hunting-seat all was marvelous. How radiantly, in the presence of this grand and magnificent uni- verse, the purified soul was borne toward the limit- less regions of the infinite. This pavilion, con- structed at a great expense, upon a high elevation, had a vast horizon, in which the sight was lost, confounding together the sky and the earth. From this culminating point, they embraced the whole deep valley wherein, similar to a lovely jewel es- caped from its casket of verdure and of hills, was nestled the little capital city, whose massive towers, whose slender and elegant belfries were so many black points, detached from a clear sky. In the distance some mountains arose, forming thus a half-circle around the Thessalian capital, vigilant sentinels, posted by nature, whose gigantic mass seemed to oppose on all sides the invasion of an enemy as well as the irruption of a malevolent Gomicbooks.com