Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 63: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 59 capital, while Najeska, who did not even suspect his discharge, believed him still at the Danube. “Have I murmured, however, a single instant, when your love was to me a sweet compensation for all my sacrifices?” passionately continued the young man. “To-day I want an imdemnification for this everlasting love that you have sworn to me and that you have violated. Is it too much to demand as the price of your cruel treason, to receive me alone, all alone, though it were only once? There in a private interview with you, I will acquaint you with all the tortures that you have inflicted on me, and under the weights of which I sink crushed.” In his ferocious and indifferent egotism, Heiligen- thal did not even suspect the torments, the anguish that this passionate cry might inflict on this woman whose only wrong was to have loved him. The attitude of Waldemar, however, was so de- spondent that Najeska Ivanowna, at the age where all in us is kindness and indulgence,.did not think of being offended at so many unjust reproaches, so many exactions. Ignorant of life, of its trials, of its sorrows, she was afraid. Of an essentially loyal and upright nature, she realized well that it was as impossible to refuse as to grant this rendezvous. The only thing which remained in her power, was postponement, delay; she was obliged to let him hope, in order to gain time. If only she had been able to confide all to her husband, to hope for his support, his counsels! But no! there is only one danger the more. She had not forgotten that it was only a few months since that she had found herself in a similar situation. What had been the price of her confidence, of her abandonment? The enraged husband, listening only to his anger, GEomicbooks.co