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276 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XXXVIII. A NEW INSULT. When Najeska Ivanowna awoke for the first time in the pious retreat where she had come to seek peace and consolation, it was almost two o’clock in the afternoon. After having embraced her dear babies, her first thought was of him who had so cruelly, so unjustly sacrificed her. Undoubtedly, she would receive a letter, a message, or a telegram from him. Oh! yes, he would give her by some means a sign of life, of interest, of friendship! AI- though she had been pained to learn the frailty of the human heart, this poor immolated creature would not have been able to believe that this king whom she had seen the day before, so filled with love, so tremulous with tenderness, had already and forever forgotten and abandoned her. In this hour of distress how she recalled the oaths of eternal constancy and fidelity, which he had lavished upon her when tremblingly and timidly she had made him a confidant of her apprehensions of the future! Her apprehensions—alas! how promptly they were justified! Completely depressed by discouragement and de- spair, the poor Princess de Mineleko was vainly en- deavoring to return to the reality of things. Nothing of this which surrounded her was calculated to pour the least balm in this grief-stricken heart. The murky and rainy weather seemed the reflection of this soul so unhappy. An uncertain light was feebly penetrating through the narrow window of the little a) GComicbooks:. com