Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 96: what you’re looking at

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88 HER ROYAL LOVER. deliver me from a life that you render so odious to me, and to which alone my poor little daughters attach me!” She spoke passionately, and.in presence of this grief so genuine, Mineleko sorrowfully bowed his head. She was perfectly right! What unlikeli- hood, what improbabilities had he not invented in order to excuse the outrageous scene which he was making! “Najeska Ivanowna, pardon me and love me!— me alone! Do you seriously affirm that I have dreamed last night?” His regard was so ardent, so sinister, that the princess grew pale. Then, endeavoring to recover her countenance, she said to him: “You speak in enigmas, my friend, and I have never been skillful in solving them. I have heard nothing last night, I repeat it to yous What I think, is that Kassar on making his last round in the house, has perhaps believed to hear, or that he has really heard, some thieves in the garden; that he has then leaned quickly out of the window and that, losing his equilibrium, he must have fallen and must have broken his back. If he has really found some malefactor there, which is almost certain, since some one must have committed the assassina- tion, they have strangled him to. force him to silence. If the thieves have not dared to enter in the house, it is that they have probably seen you at the window, since you say that you were there with your light. But let us cut short this painful conver- sation; I should be pleased if you would leave me alone a moment, for really, after these terrible emotions, I am suffering very much, and I have an excruciating headache.” — Comichbooks. co 3