Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 244: what you’re looking at

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236 HER ROYAL LOVER. forming a part of this cortege which she alone had rendered resplendent. The sunshine had succeeded to the storm. Still brilliant at this hour, on this June afternoon, it was penetrating by one of the large windows and was resting like a halo upon this brow radiant with hap- piness suppressed and shared. ; Najeska Ivanowna, like a young bride, (was she not one, indeed?), wore an entirely white court dress. Her bronzed hair set off with its effulgent rays the ornaments which adorned this heavy golden fleece. Her shoulders, attached to her body, her arms still so youthful, so slender, but so deliciously plump that everywhere little dimples were to be seen in them, all in her was captivating. In the delicate marble of her bosoms, two slightly projecting globes, all rosy with emotion, the blood appeared to tremble with desire. The tempting beauty of her _ body, the subtile charm which emanated from her, was an intoxicating flame; in a word, the whole ap- pearance of the Princess of Mineleko was replete with the bewitching impression of woman. Not: withstanding all these petticoats of tulle entwined with lilies and the heavy damask of her train she struck the senses as indelibly asa stamp marks its efigy, and aroused and awakened temptation in man. She did not remove her eves from the door by which her husband and her king was soon to ap- pear. She was endeavoring to restrain the light of an intense happiness too ready to beam from her voluptuous languishing eyes, but, the lightning of that rapture of the heart was breaking forth, how- ever, in spite of her, ateach moment. She was ra- diant with it, Gomichooks.¢o m