Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 62: what you’re looking at

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54 HER ROYAL LOVER. view. I desire that we may be alone, absolutely alone.” “Bless me! that which you ask does not altogether depend on my will; I cannot promise youit. I will do all I possibly can to be agreeable to you, but I cannot pledge myself to anything. Suppose that a fortuitous circumstance should arise, that an unex: pected visitor should present himself, that my hus- band, to whom I cannot refuse my door, should wish to enter——” “Oh, as to that, I oppose that myself; I being present, that man will never cross the threshold of your apartment. All the circumstances which may happen, you will arrange as you please, but I must see you alone. Do not object that you cannot; I will not believe it. If vou wish, you will succeed in it. Nothing is impossible to the woman who loves. In abandoning me, you have not only ruined my life, but also my career, my future. Without your knowing it, I sent in my resignation in order not to leave you at Nice, for I was recalled to the army and I was obliged to go. Ah! I astonish you—but, however, it is true! I did it without hesitation, al- though I know that in acting thus I lost at the same time the heritage of my Uncle D——, the Danubian count, my mother’s rich brother, for it was at his request that I had taken service in his country.” The Count de Heiligenthal, ike many young peo- ple of noble families of the little neighboring king- doms of the Danubian Empire, served in the Danubian army. That which he related was true. After his severe illness, being without a situation, he had found employment in the administration of the Thessalian domains. That is why he was at present in the Gomiecbooks (GE @)