Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 54: what you’re looking at

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46 HER ROYAL LOVER. this constantly vexed character is appeased and re- laxed.in this revival of nature. Suddenly, in, the distance, he sees the little English groom of his wife bent over his large horse. He recognizes this British prefile with the hair neatly parted on the back of his head under his high hat, and the red neck enclosed ina stiff collar. As he approaches, he perceives that before this domestic there are two persons on horseback. A cavalier near an elegant and handsome Amazon. Who are they? At this distance he cannot distinguish. Sud- denly he starts. This woman with the slender form and superbly-developed bust, it is Najéska Ivan- owna, it is his wife! He has recognized her; itis she! everything tells him so. That red flower fast- ened to her corsage, that pinked-out pocket on the breast of her costume, from which a little cambric handkerchief escapes, are So many indications which cannot deceive him; moreover, his heart, his jeal- ousy have spoken. It is she! The cavalier and his companion penetrate farther and farther into the thick coppice-wood of the forest; soon they disappear entirely. “Where are they going?” This thought tortures the unhappy husband. He will know, he must know. He incites Vengeance—he becomes unmaneagable; but instead of taking the path followed by the solitary couple, he enters into a parallel road. Sud- denly, his eager eyes, which peer through the forest, perceive the two riders who have stopped under the tufted branches of an oak. The cavalier who escorts Najeska Ivanowna is not the king !—it is a young man that the reader has without difficulty recognized—it is Heiligenthal, GComicbooks:co