Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 264: what you’re looking at

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256 HER ROYAL LOVER. love; and she carried this to its utmost limits; even tigers love their young! But the king was weak; he was afraid; man in name, cipher in fact, he could neither guard nor de- fend the unfortunate woman with whom he had united his destiny. Before the anger of his mother- in-law, stifling will and love, he basely cast her upon the highway, delivered her to merciless derision. (e(o)Anjiice .OO SS) (E(0) m