Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 134: what you’re looking at

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126 HER ROYAL LOVER. the king to him—the king, twenty years older than he! A terrible sentiment was making his heart beat and was impelling him to vengeance and crime! Ah! his vengeance, he held it now! In a trice, he would be in the town; he would send immediately a letter to the husband of the unfaith- ful wife. He would tell him where and with whom, at this moment, he would find his wife. Written, since the evening on which he had sur- prised the conversation of the king and the ambas- sadress, if he had not yet sent it, it was because he knew how many things can prevent a projected rendezvous. This morning even, he had not acted as soon as he would have liked to, because he wished to assure himself first, that the guilty parties would come to the little pavilion. It is, there, shut up all alone, that he will oblige the jealous husband to surprise them. Heiligenthal, seeing them happy, felt himself goaded by the greatest excitement to crime. Stifling the last scruples of his conscience, he became the infamous informer. A spoiled child, to whom all his caprices had always been granted, he recognized, at present, neither faith nor law; his base and evil passions were his only masters, those to whom his very will was subservient. So, this woman, because she had complete empire over the king, believed that she could, with impunity, play with him the elegant, the recherche habitue of the saloons of the capital! All puffed up with pride, she dared to jump with both feet upon the heart which he had gone to offer her! Well! she should see, the imprudent woman, what it would cost her to have for an enemv a Waldemar of Heiligeuchal, twice betrayed by her, Gomichooks (E(0)