Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 43: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. JO this debt of play, this sacred debt, is not entirely paid. One man alone can save him: it is Mineleko. The prince knows it—he confides his misfortune to him. A. telegram calls him quickly to him. The ambassador promises to pay at once, but on one condition; he shall be the husband of the beau- tiful Najeska Ivanowna, whom her father had al- most promised him the preceding year; but the young girl had always hesitated to accept this match. Muineleko, moreover, was completely igno- rant of the secret engagement with Waldemar. Did he even know that there was a Waldemar de Heiligenthal in the world? Although terrified by the despair of her idolized father, the unhappy Najeska Ivanowna still hesi- tates, however, to make the sacrifice of her happi- ness. A struggle arises in her heart between the love which she has for her unfortunate father and that which she has sworn to the eiect of her choice; but the remembrance of the tenderness, of the de- votion of Narish, the tears which she sees him shed, prevails at last; she immolates herself. She will be forever unhappy, but she will have saved the honor of her well-beloved father! The sacrifice, however, is not consummated! How to make Heiligenthal acquainted with the truth? One means remains perhaps to her—to tell him all! But will not that confidence debase in the eyes of Heiligenthal this father whom she desires that all should venerate? What to do, then? She throws herself in despair on the neck of the Prince of Narish, telling him all, and imploring him to write to Waldemar that an important reason had just Eomicbooks (Cl Q)