Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 118: what you’re looking at

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110 HER ROYAL LOVER, the scarcity of other royal applicants, had prevailed. While the Princess Augusta was inexhaustible upon the subject of her “George,” the Princess Aline re- mained silent about her fiance. That great dolt, that northern barbarian that they had given her seemed to have in nowise touched the heart or the imagination of the young girl. She was really very beautiful, the young Princess Aline. This day, the costume of English cloth which she wore in such an elegant manner, became her wonderfully well; the little otter cap set upon her slightly-frizzed bronze hair, gave to her charming features a little refractoriness that her large soft meditative eyes tempered. Whence did she derive this constant melancholy? One would have been able to suppose that this young heart, made for love, had already suffered; the habitues of the court sought, but in vain, that which could produce this depth of sadness in this young and lovely child, who was believed to know as yet, only the pleasures of life. When the princess had taken leave of the ambas- sadress, the latter, not wishing to go and seek him herself, transmitted to her husband, by her maid, the invitation that they had received from the king. When Glascha ascended to her master’s apartment, she found him with his head buried in his hands. Seated before his secretary and although surrounded by a great number of notes, and administrative papers, Mineleko was not writing. He seemed to be absorbed in a cruel reverie. The next day, they were going to inter Kassan, and notwithstanding the activity of the police, the investigation had not advanced a step. Mineleko, who occupied himself but little with domestics, did not observe that Glascha feared to (E(0) mm G JOO Ss (E(0)