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HER ROYAL LOVER. 207 for her influence with the king. Besides, the very uncertain connection of the king and Madame de Mineleko, the slight doubt on the subject of her brother’s relations with the ambassadress which had arisen in her, even before the revelations of the divorce revealing Waldemar’s role with the prin- cess, had hindered Mademoiselle de Heiligenthal, with her exquisite tact, from ever addressing such a prayer to her. And now, after her brother’s base- ness to the ambassadress, she could not cone late herself enough for not having spoken. Madame Haller was becoming more bitter fea day to day. Her Conrad! her handsome Conrad! had he his equalin the king’s guards? the select regiment of Thessaly. Who carried his head with an ease and grace as royalas he? Was he not al- ways and everywhere remarked? Might not one easily have believed that he was a prince’s son, rather than a commoner’s child? As for Madame de Mineleko, she only went out now between her two babies in their nurses’ arms. It was a charming spectacle that of this mother so young with her beautiful children. The princess had suffered no little during that time so filled with anxieties, and uncertitudes. Con- tradictory sentiments were again struggling in her heart. In reality, she was often moved with pity about her husband’s fate; the unhappy man loved his children so much! and hereafter he would see so little of them. And she? was not the very vio- lence of the prince’s jealousy a proof of the love which he had vowed to her? This thought, lke an acute pain, wounded profoundly the tender heart of the wife, as well as that of the mother. Far from him, having to suffer no more from his Jj » eEomicbooks.com