Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 348: what you’re looking at

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340 s1ER ROYAL LOVER. innocent, as it is a shame to live guilty; comparing her role thus with that of her executioners, she had not been willing to changeit. Oh, no! no! a thou- sand times no! Gradually and entirely now security in the immensity of the consoling God had entered in her heart, which no human profanity would ever be able to touch. The Creator, in all His majesty, in all His mystery, was appearing to His creatures, who suddenly illuminated with a new and hitherto unknown light, fell on her knees and adored her God, her Father. Like the Christians in the early ages, a superhuman enthusiasm transported her soul in the ethereal regions of immensity, and she began to love her sufferings, her martyrdom, be- cause she believed in a divine compensation. Oh, sublimity of faith! whither extends the depths of thy consolations? Gomichooksscom =)