Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 60: what you’re looking at

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52 | HER ROYAL LOVER, CHAPTER VI. ¢T MUST SEE YOU ALONE.” In the encounter on horseback, surprised by Mon- sieur de Mineleko, between his wife and Heiligen- thal, this added still to the fear that her interview the day before at the court ball had inspired in Najeska Ivanowna. “You shall receive me alone, in private, at your house, or I will pay you, before everybody, such attentions that your husband will be obliged to seek a quarrel with me,” the young man had repeated to her twenty times. Najeska Ivanowna knew Heiligenthal; she knew that his obstinacy and his determination fully equaled the jealous and suspicious character of her husband. Dear me! dear me! what would be the result of all this? What could she do to extricate herself from this painful and dangerous situation? Confide ina madman like her husband? It was not to be thought of; that had been to precipitate herself head first into the abyss. To refuse squarely, ener- getically, to receive Waldemar on the conditions which he had imposed on her, that was to provoke him to make some coup d’etat. On whatsoever way she turned, the poor princess saw misfortune hover- ing over her. Was he not capable of everything, this count who, when the Prince of Narish had demanded them by writing, had affirmed that he had destroyed cEomicbooks. co