Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 52: what you’re looking at

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44 HER ROYAL LOVER. have forgotten nothing of these circumstances. He remembered, indeed, the assiduous attention that Waldemar then paid to the beautiful princess—thus was it with a malicious pleasure that he had mys- teriously uttered that remark: “Heiligenthal is here.” Now for the ambassadress, no more peace! The days, the hours would pass in trembling. What would in reality occur, if Ivan Alexandrowitch, in- tentionally or unintentionally, making the count the subject of conversation, should happen imprudently, in the presence of Mineleko, to divulge all those ~ things which she kept so profoundly concealed in her heart? Happily the young grand duke would depart the next day after the betrothal ball, and thus her disquietude would be dissipated. An hour had scarcely flown since the ambassador had so abruptly left his wife, when two little knocks, discreetly rapped on his door, made him raise his head. It was GlJascha, the princess’ chambermaid, who, sent by her, came to ask the prince if he would not like to come and take a ride with her, on this beautiful spring morning. Besides his jealous temperament, Mineleko had also a peevish, morose disposition. He was furi- ously angry at his wife for having, that very morn- ing, so carelessly dismissed him from her chamber. It was, then, in a surly tone that he responded: “Tell Madame la Princess that, having no desire to go out, she will be obliged to remain or mee alone.” But the waiting-woman had scarcely gone than Mineleko, his soul consumed by fury, said to himself that he had really been very awkward in thus allow- ing Najeska Ivanowna to go out alone; it was him- self, and not her, that he punished, in putting the Gomicbooks: co