Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 57: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER, 7 49 quette,” thought Mineleko. “And she considers herself pure!” Apart from this, nothing else of a serious nature transpired. Shortly afterward, the horses being somewhat rested, the riders went back and re-entered the city. In his suspicious susceptability, Mineleko remarked, however, that they separated on approaching the populous quarter of the Residence. Returned to the embassy, Najeska Ivanowna was not aware that her husband had gone out a short time after her. At breakfast, the prince questioned her about her ride. The princess responded evasively: “that the weather was so fine, the atmosphere so pure that she had had a very agreeable ride;” but she did not say one word about her encounter with Heiligenthal. This detail did not escape her husband. If she was innocent in deed and intention, why did she con- ceal it? If he had asked her the question, could she not have responded: “If I do not speak to a man whom I have met, is it not because that every allusion of this nature leads unceasingly to storms which my fatigued nerves can no longer endure?” Thus the most trivial things engender in this brain, always on the alert, a grave suspicion which everything conspired to establish. On this very afternoon, the ambassador repaired to the palace; he had obtained of his majesty a private audience, in order to communicate to him some dispatches from the country which he repre- sented. Received with great deference, he was obliged, however, to wait a moment until the king was at Comicbooks (€ @)