Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 158: what you’re looking at

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150 HER ROYAL LOVER. know all. It was no living to remain in such an uncertainty, a thousand times more terrible than the truth! To write to Najeska Ivanowna would be very dangerous; to go there, still more so. Attached to the person of Charles Ferdinand XVIII, was an aide-de-camp, on whose discretion and fidelity he could rely. This favorite was that same Adlersward, whom we have seen, one morning, conversing with Min- eleko. The sudden assault upon the ambassadress was the sensational news of the day; nobody in the city was ignorant of it, thus nothing would seem more natural, more obligatory even, than the visit of one of the king’s aide-de-camps, coming to inquire after the interesting invalid. To act thus, was it not, moreover, to pay respect to the sovereign of the country represented by Monsieur and Madame de Mineleko? Count Adlersward received, then, the order to re- pair to the ambassadress. Furnished with a letter, which he was only to deliver to Najeska Ivanowna, if he saw her alone; in the event of his not being able to approach the invalid, the messenger was ito content himself with simply obtaining, by adroit means, as many details as possible about the tragical assault of the morning. When Count Adlersward arrived at the hotel of the embassy, the running to and fro which follows a great event, the excitement which accompanied it had not yet subsided. The astonished secretaries were obliged to confess that Monsieur de Mineleko had not yet returned. Upon confirmation of the prince’s absence, Count Eomichbooks. co m