Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 217: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER, 209 CHAPTER XXIX. THE KING’S PRESENTS. Some evenings before the day on which the Princess Agusta’s marriage was to be celebrated, the king came to visit Najeska. He was radiant, for he was becoming more passionately in love. Since the painful events which she had just passed through, and over which her heart was still griev- ing much, Najeska Ivanowna had adopted as her colors black and white; were those not truly the only ones in harmony with the thoughts of her soul? alternately in mourning for a past perhaps regretted, or full of hope for a future sometimes ap- prehended. When the king was announced to her, although she knew that he had come to fulfill the pledged promise, a slight sensation which she could not ex- plain, traversed her heart. The legal time after which she could marry again had just expired. 7 Hardly had the servant left the apartment than the king rushing toward Najeska Ivanowna, pressed her tenderly to his heart. “Dost thou doubt me now, now, since I come to thee, happy to keep the plighted troth which is going to make the happiness, the joy of our lives?” “Have I ever doubted your majesty ?” “Ah! let us break the vain formalities of rank and call me thy husband, thy slave, thy toy, for I will be all that! Everything combines to produce auspicious omens for us. My eldest daughter enters upon her new happiness in eight days, and we will Eomichbooks.com