Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 31: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 23 “Notatall. Ifelt aslizht uneasiness. It passed very quickly, and without any consequence. How sorry Iam then to have thus frightened your high- ness!” added she, on seeing the prince fasten upon her regards filled with uneasiness. “Najeska Ivanowna,” these words alone, flung in > her ear by the grave voice of a young man passing’ rapidly by her, the impassioned flame of the looks which he had cast upon her, had sufficed to awaken in the beautiful ambassadress all this disquietude, inexplicable for all but her. A year had already expired since the princess had seen this specter of Banquo, and behold! at the first erand fete given at the Court of Thessaly, where she had only just arrived, appeared to her he who had loved her with a delicious love; he to whom she had been affianced, and to whom her father had refused her in order to give her to the richest of her ad- mirers. “Will your highness leave me an instant? I feel that I can only recover when alone,” said she, sud- denly, on seeing in the distance the supplicating eyes that the stranger fixed upon her—whose humble but impassioned attitude seemed to say to her: “Dismiss the prince, I entreat you! I must speak to ou!” ‘ The prince, great lord, in the true acceptation of the word, conducted the young woman to a remote drawing-room where the noise of the crowd could not even reach her, then, bowing profoundly to the princess, he discreetly retired. His highness had hardly disappeared behind the heavy portiere, when the stranger was already with the ambassadress. He remained standing a moment, silent, absorbed in a veritable contempla- cComicbooks (€ 0)