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Rh She got up and shrank back from him, as he moved toward her.

"You do not understand!" she cried miserably. "Oh, don't you see what I have done? It is because of me—I have been the means of losing the Surakarta, which means a kingdom! What can I do now, if he still wants me, but—even against my will—marry the Soesoehoenan!"

He took her in his arms.

"Not that, Lorine!" he breathed. "Not that!"