Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 25: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 17 hand to the cavalier who is opposite her, murmured very low in her ear: “Do you know, princess, that Waldemay de Heil- igenthal is present at this fete ?” At those words she became very pale, and be- lieved that she was going to fall; but, resisting the emotion which invaded her, she surmounted that momentary weakness. She did not respond to the grand duke, and, when she turned around again to the king, the Princess of Mineleko had completely recovered her self-possession. However, from this moment, a close observer would have easily been able to verceive that her eyes seemed to desire to penetrate the crowd, as though seeking some one. Gomicbooks (€| Q)