Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 204: what you’re looking at

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196 HER ROYAL LOVER. “Monseigneur,” said he, “to-morrow morning it will be necessary to see an advocate, whom you must choose from among the most celebrated; for _ this evening, there is nothing to do but to endeavor to calm yourself, and go to sleep. Your ideas, after a rest, will be more correct, more lucid. “Endeavor to calm myseif! Try to sleep!” and Mineleko’s giggling increased again. “Couldst thou sleep, thou, if some one was plucking thy heart out?” “No, monseigneur. I know you are unhappy, and I wish to do all in my power to assist you to recover your lost tranquillity. But, what at present, does there remain for you to do?” The poor old man was right. With hands as ten- der as those of a woman he commenced to undress his master who, completely unconscious of that which was passing around him, suffered him to do it like a child. Notwithstanding the fury which was rending him, Mineleko comprehended how culpable he had been. Lo whip his wife! a Princess of Mineleko! Was it astonishing that after that she demanded a divorce? We will expatiate no longer upon the unhappy man’s despair. The next day the Prince of Mineleko sent for one of the most celebrated advocates of the bar of the Caucasian capital. There resulted from this visit, the same day, a summons sent to the address of Madame de Mineleko in Thessaly. By this sum- mons the prince acquainted Najeska Ivanowna that although his recall from the position of Ambassador to the Court of Thessaly was not official, he was not, until further orders, to return to that country, and that remaining at present in the Caucasian capital, he summoned her to return to the conjugal domicile, m Gomicbooks.co