Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 198: what you’re looking at

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190 HER ROYAL LOVER, cate that the king recommended to her; she would see Mineleko no more, “and this was yet too light a punishment for him,” the king said, “for, if justice had followed its course, the penalty had been two years in prison, and consequently the complete an- nihilation of his whole career, that his cowardly out- rage would have brought him, without speaking of the murder of his valet in which, with or without reason, justice believed to see the hands of the prince who, in his paroxysm of rage, became a dan- gerous and even criminal madman.” Najeska Ivanowna angrily wished to interrupt him. “Do not excuse him!” the king said to her, closing her mouth with a long kiss, and assuring her by the most explicit oaths, that he would marry her as soon as the time imposed by the law should have ex- pired, after the sentence of divorce. Besides, the case of Madame de Mineleko was so clear that there would not be a shadow of difficulty in seeing her demand granted. COmMiIcbooks co