Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 300: what you’re looking at

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292 : HER ROYAL LOVER, CHAPTER XLI, THE JUDGE’S ANGUISH. The reader has, like ourselves, followed the hope- less love of Conrad Haller and Walpurga de Hei- ligenthal. Madame Haller, who adored her son, could no longer support the sight of his chagrin. We know how much, even before the debut of this love, she was devoured with ambition and had madly wished that the king would ennoble her family. Now, that this pnnobling had become a condition sine qua non of her son’s marriage with Mademoiselle de Heili- genthal, she pushed to frenzy the desire which ane had to obtain that honor. She was plunged more than ever in this disposi- tion of mind, when the secretary of the palace was announced. It must not be forgotten that the king’s marriage had been kept secret, that a very small number of persons had any knowledge of it. Monsieur Haller knew that Monsieur Klug had just addressed his protest to the supreme tribunal, but as he had not yet returned since morning, his wife (to whom, moreover, he did not relate everything) was still ig- norant of the event. Hardly had the messenger of the king departed before the carriage bringing back Monsieur Haller stopped before his door. Madame Haller, very much pre-occupied with the message left by the secretary, ran to meet her Bogvend, What did they want of comichooks:com