Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 338: what you’re looking at

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330 HER ROYAL LOVER, CHAPTER XLV. A WOMAN’S FAITH. One morning, while reading a journal which entered the doors of the austere residence, for her alone. suddenly she arose frightened; a terrible trembling took possession of her whole frame; she hastily threw aside the public journal, uttered a heart-rending cry and fell at the feet of a nun, her sister in sacrifices, who was with her at that mo- ment. What event can then have affected to such an extent this poor young woman, upon whom every affliction, every misfortune seemed, however, to fall without intermission ! sister Marie, despite the indifference which she had sworn to everything in this world, cast an un- easy glance upon the “ Nonvelliste.” She read with stupor these few lines, which sufficed to explain the emotion of the poor recluse: “ A duel to the death has just taken place near H— upon the frontier of Thessaly. The two adversaries, sworn enemies, were the Prince de Mineleko and the Count de Heiligenthal. The issue of the combat was not doubtful; the hate of these two men was such that one of them had to remain upon the field. It was the Ex-Ambassador of Cancasus. Struck by a ball which pierced his body, he expired cursing the princess, his wife, for the coquetting through which she had so often exposed his life.” New and wicked outrage! Shameless lie! We know that, in this statement, one fact alone was true; the death of Boris Michailowitch de Mineleko, comicbooks:co m