Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 225: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 217 it, those have written to me who surround him. Ah! the blow which has struck him is too much, too heavy now for his rude nature; he is stricken by it!” “At first, before leaving Europe, he wished to come here, to repossess you in spite of every one and take you far away with him, but some influ- ences in high places have prevented; he has had to © set out immediately. Then they made him compre- hend that all resistance had become useless. The King of Thessaly has brought a lively pressure to bear upon the emperor. Notwithstanding the pro- digious case that the Ambassador of Caucasus has made, his majesty has not hesitated to let him know that if he dared to re-enter Thessaly or to annoy you in any manner whatsoever, once his mission accom- plished he would send him, not as ambassador to another Kuropean court, but as a governor in a dis- tant station of the Pacific. You comprehend that such a terrible menace must have produced its effect.” “Ts he much changed?” demanded Najeska Ivan- owna, not comprehending herself what strange in- terest still attached her to thisman. But he was the father of her children, of her little babies, and such a tie is not so quickly annihilated. “Yes, he is much changed; at least, he was so, for I only saw him before his departure for his mission, from whence he will soon be able to return, for nearly ten months have already elapsed since that epoch. Really, it would grieve you to see him! He is nothing but the shadow of himself. I believe that the remorse which he experiences for the brutal ac- tion to which he owes his divorce, pursues him night and day. Tobe separated from you, without Eomichooks.com —