Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 306: what you’re looking at

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298 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XLII. A RAY OF HOPE. The president was exact. Punctually at four o’clock he presented himself before the Empress of Hindostan and the King of Thessaly. “Your majesty has sent forme. In what can I be of service to you?” While pronouncing these words the president of the supreme tribunal bowed profoundly before their majesties; the interview commenced. It was the old empress who, according to her custom, spoke for her son-in-law, “Monsieur le President; you have doubtless re- ceived this very day, from Monsieur Klug, the pro- test of the Princess of Mineleko against her banish- ment from Thessalian territory.” “Indeed, your majesty, and, if it is permitted me, I must also observe to your majesty that the client of Monsieur Klug appears to me to have just cause for her complaint, especially if her marriage with his majesty the king, my sovereign master, has been legally accomplished. Now, if my information is correct, nothing is more certain.” “Would it be so, even though there was a means of finding a way which would interpret a decision contrary to the court?” demanded the empress. “T regret to be obliged to say to your majesty that even at the risk of attracting the disfavor of my sov- ereign master, the court can decide nothing only ac- cording to positive facts; the laws of the country are explicit, Every marriage is recognized as legal Gomichooks sco m