Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 93: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 85 precise enough to enable him to formulate a regular file of accusation against Boris Michailowitch. When the interrogation of Glascha came, this girl compelled to make the sign of the cross, executed all sorts of contortions, then she fainted and had a long hysterical fit, during which some incoherent phrases, void of sense and words, escaped from her breast. This was all that they were able to extract from her. The Princess of Mineleko, questioned in her turn, responded that she had heard nothing of the assas- sination until the hour when her husband came to announce it to her that same morning. “When and by whom has the victim been seen for the last time, either during the day or during the night?” demanded the magistrate. This point was difficult to unravel, to solve, Kassar sleeping alone down stairs. When, after their work completed, all the servants had ascended to their rooms, he also had gone to his chamber. And afterward, not a sound, not a cry, which could attract attention or require investiga- tion. No one, outside the prince and the nurse, had then seen or heard anything. The grave and compromising fact which had so strongly impressed the commissary (of Mineleko keeping quiet when he thought he had seen a man leap out of the window), struck the magistrate also. But all his suspicions were dissipated when the Geheimrath Schlotz, court physician, a man whose honor and integrity was known to all, called by the magistrate, affirmed to the two magistrates upon the faith of the most sacred oaths, that he had left an opiate with Mineleko and that before leaving Gcomicbooks:.com