Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 40: what you’re looking at

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32 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER IV. WHY SHE MARRIED HIM. The observer, in fact, was not mistaken in his previsions when he affirmed that the Ambassador of Caucasus was devoured by jealousy. Kverywhere where the exigencies of his position made it his duty to present himself with the ambassadress, everywhere he encountered material for this terrible passion. The admiration which this beautiful creat- ure excited, the constant triumph which accom- panied her steps, was for him a subject of appre- hensions, of suspicions, of tortures. Najeska Ivanowna was the only daughter of the Prince of Narish, a lord possessing large estates on the borders of the Black Sea. Becoming a widower almost immediately after the birth of his daughter, this man, as learned as distinguished, consecrated himself entirely to the education of this dear little creature. In order the better to acquit himself of this sacred mission, he fled from the large cities, and he, the inveterate gambler, did not hesitate to shut himself up in these vast solitudes. Having promised himself to give the child a brilliant edu- cation, worthy of the exalted position which was reserved for her, he surrounded her with teachers as skilful as enlightened; St. Petersburg and Paris furnished him with some who ‘had been warmly recommended to him. A skillful horsewoman, the young princess could, without fatiguing herself, make twenty leagues on horseback, neither more nor less than a cavalry officer. Gymnastics and dancing found in her a (E(oylpallice JOO ‘S.co