Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 29: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER, 21 to see the king accord them this nobility, object of all their ambitions. Conrad said to himself with bitterness that, if he found himself this evening at the court, he owed it only to the great betrothal fete of the princesses. The king, desiring the people to share in the happi- ness which he prepared for his daughters, had been liberal in his invitations. In fact, in this dense crowd, how many saw for the first time, and with- out doubt for the last, the gilded ceilings of the salons of the palace of the Residence! “My dear Conrad, we must separate,” said Wal- purga, after some moments passed in a delicious tete-a-tete, far from the eyes of all, and endeavoring thus to console themselves for the obstacles which opposed their marriage. “It is time that I return to my aunt; she commences, without doubt, to grow uneasy at my absence—she may find it perhaps too long. For our interest, it is necessary that she may have nothing disagreeable to say to my family. Take me back then to her.” And the two young people, returning to the crowded salons, were again carried along by the human waves. comicbooks:.c¢o