Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 41: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 33 pupil as bold as indefatigable. The exercises of the body were not the only ones to which she applied herself with delight; ancient and modern literature, the most abstruse sciences, had nothing of conceal- ment for this mind, as great as the vast nation which she inherited; she spoke correctly five or six lan- guages which seemed to be natural to her; in a word, this daughter of the air, this independent, had all the talents which is exacted to-day from the best educated young ladies. She possessed, more than all, the wild and fragrant beauty of the superb women of Caucasus. Although having grown up far from the world, in the midst of the vast steppes and infinite vestas of lands, almost boundless, of her father, she created, from her first appearance in the capital of Caucasus, an immense sensation. She was barely seventeen when the Prince of Narish presented her at court. From that time a multitude of admirers came to offer their homages on the altar erected to this en- chantress. The list is open. To whom will this delicate hand, so recherche decree the palm of victory? All eyes are turned toward her—each waits, and waits in vain. After a season passed in the capital, the Prince of Narish went in the spring with his daughter to establish himself at Nice for some weeks. The young princess met there the Count of Heiligenthal, belonging to one of the most ancient and proudest families of Thessaly, standing very well at court, but who served in the army of the Emperor of the Danube, neighbor of the King of Thessaly, his mother being a Danubian, and he was the heir of her brother, an old Hungarian noble without chil- dren, possessing a large fortune. Gomicbooks (GC @)