Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 327: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

HER ROYAL LOVER. 319 heard a movement in the chamber which I knew to be yours. Terrified, dismayed, excited, realizing ‘that there was not a moment to lose, I threw the corpse outside. The horrible and dull sound of its heavy fall gave me the most frightful chill that I have ever experienced! But, I had no time to define my sensation, for the door of your chamber opened. Electrified by the danger that I was incurring, I precipitated myself after it. That was a second of terrible agony in which I was revolving in space; but by a miracle of heaven, notwithstanding the height of the window and thanks to the turf on which I fell, I was not injured, not even a sprain! “You approached the window by which I had just disappeared, Isaw you, but you did not see me. Your staring eyes were looking into space. You sav yourself a gust of wind extinguished your light. That was my salvation. I profited by that instant of obscurity to escape, running with prodigious rapidity. Making use of the key that the maid had given me, I went out of the garden. All the chances favored me that evening, for, hardly had I arrlved, exhausted, at home, than a storm of rain and hail burst forth which literally inundated the earth. This storm would surely efface the imprint of my footsteps in your garden. “During the first days which followed, not know- ing how much the princess knew about that which had happened, I trembled lest she might speak, if not of the murder, at least of my nocturnal visit. What courage was necessary for me to join the royal picnic the day afterward, you would not be able to believe; and if I repaired thither, it was because I had no other means of approaching and sounding the princess upon how much she knew of Gomicbook