Excerpt from The Republican's Mistress, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Founded Upon Facts Truth of the observation; for in con sequence of those words, Genevieve continued more secluded than ever, and the Count's offer of the friendship Of the beautiful Marchioness was rejected. Disappointed and enraged, J anetta accused the Count of coldness in her cause, and love for the hated Genevieve; but he successfully par ried her attack, and the farewell gala of the Duca de Sebastina, deter mined this daring woman to face her rival in public, and risk the loss of her own late assumed rank, rather than fail in her intention of humbling the proud heiress of Gascony, whose praise every where met her ear, and fell like drops of wormwood upon her heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.