Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 44: what you’re looking at

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36 HER ROYAL LOVER. placed an insuperable obstacle to the realization of their marriage. | Heiligenthal, raving, wounded to the quick, ac- cuses poor Najeska Ivanowna: “It is cupidity, the desire of honors, the expectation of finding a richer husband, which make her act so odiously!” Heis determined to avenge himself; but this unhappy one, who had loved his fiancee with all the violence of a heart still young, had presumed too much on his strength. Shocked by this unexpected blow, he was seized witha grave malady which nailed him on a bed of suffering. During some weeks, he hovered between life and death. Did he forget, during the months in which circum- stances kept them far from each other? Alas! no—never a minute passed that he did not think of this lost treasure, and lost without hope. Of an irresolute mind, a heart without great prin,. ciples, Waldemar had yet had one profound sensé&- tion in his life: the sincere love which he had devoted to Najeska of Narish. This love of his heart and of his senses, ought we not to say— especially of his senses—would it have vibrated again for her if fate had unfortunately not decreed that she should come to the Court of Thessaly? That is what we cannot positively say. The daz- zling apparition of this superb woman was always like a magnetic commotion which traversed the mind of this feeble man, having never <Danen how to subdue any of his passions. This charming cavalier, this unprinbinled Love- lace, accustomed to easy conquest, believed that he could easily overcome the scruples of the beautiful Najeska; listening, as we have said, only to the voice of his insensate love, he said to himself that this Eomichooks: co