Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 17: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER I. THE CAUCASIAN BEAUTY. “See, then, how smitten the king appears!” “You think so?” ; “Follow his eyes; he cannot turn them away from her; see, also, how secretly vexed the women are!” “Who is she?” “You do not know her?” “How could you suppose that a bird of passage like me, arriving this very afternoon from Paris, — before setting out to-morrow morning for the East, could know her?” “But, my dear, that is Madame de Mineleko, Ambassadress from Caucasus, hardly married a year.” This short colloquy took place between two guests of the grand ball which was given at the little Court of Thessaly to celebrate simultaneously the betrothals of the two charming daughters of the king, a widower since several years. The exiguity of the kingdom of Thessaly did not Gomicbooks: co