Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 36: what you’re looking at

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28 HER ROYAL LOVER. exclaimed the young woman, who could no longer sustain the role which she had imposed upon herself in this comedy. “Do you not see that I, also, am at the end of my strength—have you no eyes, then, but for your own sufferings, and are you thus blind to that of others?” “But then, Najeska, you love me still! Ah! tell me so, that you are still mine at heart! tell me so, and I go withcut murmuring!” cried the young man, affected at last by the real grief imprinted upon the features of the princess. “No! No!—I will not say so; I cannot say so; that would be to betray my husband!” “Is it necessary for you to tell meso? Iseeit. I feel it! everything in you proves it; your palpitating bosom, your pale lips, the anxious expression of your face when I suddenly arose before you! Najeska Ivanowna, do not lie!—you love me!—you love me! Without that, what would it signify to you if your husband should challenge me to a duel?” said he, with all the conceit of a man who does not admit fora single instant that an unhappy woman might tremble for any other than himself. “It is only very lately,” continued Heiligenthal, “that the truth has at last disclosed itself, and that I have known that which has caused our separa- tion. When the news was reported that you had renounced our marriage only in order to save your father from ruin and dishonor, when I knew why you had consented to destroy it—our happiness— and when I had learned that you were here, for a mo- ment I believed that I would go mad with joy. The coldness that you affected at my approach, the con- fusion that you appeared to experience from it, the care that you took to keep me out of your path, are (E(0) mm C JOO S (E(0)