Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 206: what you’re looking at

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198 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XXVIII. A PREY TO REMORSE. The divorce vf the Prince and Princess de Mine- leko was quickly decided, and the case was won by the princess, who triumphed upon all the counts. The Supreme Court found on the chapter of brutali- ties and harsh measures, the most overwhelming charges against the ambassador. The guardianship of the children fell also to the princess, who had al- ways shown herself worthy of it; the father had only the right of seeing them at certain epochs de- termined by the law, and then the interview could only take place in the presence of witnesses. Those eveuts did not occur as rapidly as we relate them here. All the formalities inherent to a law- suit followed their course, and the suit lasted no less than three months. When all was terminated it was in the month of August. The din of the “Mineleko scandal,” as the affair of the ex-Ambassador of Caucasus was called, would have been extinguished by other news and divers other facts, if gradually, and in spite of the silence which the Caucasian journals had preserved. an ex- traordinarily incredible history had not fallen like a bomb in the midst of the Thessalian nobility. The — thing was certainly very astonishing; and there was a great commotion in the residence city. This was the singular report. It was whispered in the capital of Caucasus, where the suit had taken place, that at this part of the interrogatory: “Who has written this anonymous letter?” a witness had” Gomme oye OkKS)..GO m