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Then they descended a corresponding flight of stairs and entered a chamber where they were received by pages; the next room, of larger size, was crowded, and here they remained for a few minutes. Then they were ushered into the presence. The young Queen of the Ansarey could not have received them with an air more impassive had she been holding a levée at St.
Cypros feared that the presence of the two guests of her mistress might prove an obstacle to the fulfilment of this wish, as the freedom of social intercourse that prevailed among the Ansarey was unknown even among the ever-veiled women of the Maronites and Druses.
A beautiful and sometimes flickering light played over the sacred groups and figures, softening the ravages of time, and occasionally investing them with, as it were, a celestial movement. 'The gods of the Greeks! exclaimed Tancred. 'The gods of the Ansarey, said the Queen; 'the gods of my fathers! 'I am filled with a sweet amazement, murmured Tancred. 'Life is stranger than I deemed.
It was not for an impassioned votary to intimate a difficulty; but if Fakredeen, to elicit an opinion, sometimes hinted an adverse suggestion, the objection was swept away in an instant by an individual whose inflexible will was sustained by the conviction of divine favour. The People of Ansarey
There is no doubt that, if we were all agreed, if Lebanon and the Ansarey were to unite, we could clear Syria of the Turks, conquer the plain, and carry the whole coast in a campaign, and no one would ever interfere to disturb us. Why should they? The Turks could not, and the natives of Fran-guestan would not. Leave me to manage them.
But fifteen years ago, when we first met, friend Darkush, you did not say nay to M. de Sidonia. It was the plague alone that stopped us. 'The snow on the mountain is not the same snow as fifteen years ago, Effendi. All things change! 'Let us talk, then, of scammony. The Ansarey have friends in other lands, but if they will not listen to them, many kind words will be lost.
Tancred looked round and caught the glance of the Queen of the Ansarey, mortified, yet full of affection. 'It seems to me, he said, 'that it is time for me to terminate a visit that has already occasioned you, royal lady, too much vexation. Astarte burst into tears. 'Let me go, she said, 'you want a throne; this is a rude one, yet accept it. You require warriors, the Ansarey are invincible.
By a simulated defence on the borders, and by the careful dissemination of false intelligence, he had allowed the Pasha and his troops to penetrate the mountains, and principally by a pass which the Turks were assured by their spies that the Ansarey had altogether neglected. The success of these manoeuvres had been as complete as the discomfiture and rout of the Turks.
'And the name of the Queen's mother 'Is of no consequence, observed Keferinis, 'for she was a slave, and not one of us, and therefore may with singular exactitude be described as nothing. 'Is she the first Queen who has reigned over the Ansarey? inquired Tancred. 'The first since we have settled in these mountains, replied Keferinis. 'And where were you settled before? inquired Fakredeen.
'Yes; I have been at Damascus several times since I travelled with M. de Sidonia, and I have sometimes smoked a nargileh with this man: his name is Dar-kush, and he deals in drugs. Now this was the reason that induced Tancred to inquire of Baroni respecting the Ansarey.
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