Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 316: what you’re looking at

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308 HER ROYAL LOVER. about to depart as Ambassador to Bosnia, the other to go as attache to the Embassy at Paris. Prince Gariatinski very courteously handed him a note sealed with the arms of the Prince de Mineleko. This is what he read: “Waldemar de Heiligenthal, you have acted like a spy and a coward. Although unworthy of cross- ing swords with a Prince of Mineleko, who counts no less than two Czars of Caucasus among his ances. tors, 1 am so eager for vengeance, I have such a thirst for your blood, that I declare to you that if you refuse to give me satisfaction in meeting me be- yond the frontiers of Thessaly, a country to which access is forbidden me, I will come even there to seek you, to kill you. I would have come already months ago if I had been able. “Boris MICHAILOWITCH, “Prince de Mineleko.” One may judge of the fury of Walpurga’s brother. If it had not been for the great forbearance of the Prince de Mineleko’s two friends a regrettable in- cident had certainly taken place. But thanks to their tact and moderation, all passed with pro- priety. “JT shall await at the frontier of Thessaly him who has dared to insult me thus, and I will give him satisfaction,” said the Count de Heiligenthal. “Moreover, I will send to you, my friends; they will settle with you about all the details.” Two days after, early in the morning, a small number of men were approaching in silence a glade in the forest of I——, situated outside of the Thes- salian territory. By their correct and severe bear- ing, by their mysterious and serious deportment, one might easily comprehend that a capital event was preparing. Gomicbooks: com