Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 114: what you’re looking at

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106 | _ HER ROYAL LOVER. “It seems to me, madam, that you have some- thing to communicate to me?” “Madam!” He called her “madam!” Najeska Ivanowna still kept silent. For the third time her husband reiterated his demand. Then, making a great effort over herself, she decided to speak. “Last night, my friend——” She could not say any more. “ And what took place, last night?” “Last night——” She was silent again before the strange looks of her husband. At last, she took an irrevocable reso- lution. He must be told all. Without subterfuge she revealed the different episodes of that doleful night. “And what did this mando? What did he take out of your hands?” Najeska Ivanowna, in spite of her habitual pres- ence of mind, was confused by this question, for which she had not prepared an answer. “Has he stolen money or jewels from you?” And the piercing eyes of the prince were immova- bly fixed upon those of the trembling young woman. “Bless me!” said she, at last, “I do not recollect very well. I believe that I had nothing very im- portant in my hand.” “Ah! who knows?” said he, sneeringly. Impatient, provoked, Najeska Ivanowna cried: “ Begone! you horrify me!” But, after all the anguish, the alternations of the preceding day, being no longer able to restrain her- self, she melted into tears. Notwithstanding his fury, sentiment born from his love and from his jealousy, at the sight of his wife’s distress, Mineleko Eeom (C eee) S (E(0)