Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 34: what you’re looking at

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26 HER ROYAL LOVER. esy that you will take me immediately to the draw- ing-rooms.” “Najeska—Najeska Ivanowna!—have pity on me! —do not force me to extremities! Do you not see that Iam mad? Who would have ever been able to believe that you would one day repulse me thus! Have you forgotten, then, your oaths of love? Have you forgotten those divine days, passed under the sunny skies of the South? Those evenings where, entwined, we waltzed indefatigably, happy to feel ourselves in each other’s arms!—blessed hours in which we exchanged vows of a fidelity which was to be eternal! “But let us leave these remembrances, as dear as painful to my heart. I see you then! What an effect this meeting produces on me! but, however, I cannot say that it rekindles in me a love illy ex- tinguished, for I have never had any other thought but you, I declare it to you before God! Freely I surrendered myself; freely you had chosen’ me among many others; by what right did you re- pulse me?” “Monsieur de Heiligenthal, if you do not let me go, I will call. At present you transgress the limits of all propriety; I like to believe that this paroxysm of folly will cease as soon as you appeal to your good sense, to your reason, then you will see how more impossible than ever all intercourse between us has become, and I expect from your chivalrous gallantry the promise that you will make no attempt to bring about a meeting between us.” “You believe that I will go away?” “IT pray you! If necessary, I even order you to do so.” “Well,no! Iwill not goaway!” Then changing (E(@) mm (G JOO KH (E€(0)