Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 190: what you’re looking at

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182 HER ROYAL LOVER. Najeska Ivanowna. Although she supported her unhappy fate, with the resignation and the patience of an angel, the hearts which were interested in her, could not cease to be uneasy, in thinking of the sad future which perhaps awaited her. “No!” said the king to himself, “this flower is too fragile for one to leave it in the heavy cJaws of this tiger, who, one day, in a moment of intense jeal- ousy, will break it like a glass. For the king, for the police, as well as for every- body in Thessaly, it was really the ambassador who had whipped his wife and strangled his servant. The secretaries of the embassy, the servants of Mineleko, even those who were a long time in his service, were also secretly whispering it. Whatsoever side they turned, all doubts were dissipated. Indignation and rage arose in the heart of the king, at the thought that knowing the truth, and being able to prove it, they had been obliged to arrest the inquiry of the police, and allow this man to go in perfect liberty, because he was an ambas- sador, and that it was necessary to avoid creating unpleasantness with an allied power as powerful as - the Caucasian Empire. Gomichbooks.co