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Updated: May 1, 2025
The top of the long ascent being reached, the last gate, the Hathi Pol, is passed, and the wayfarer finds himself in the midst of the great dead city, which lies in ruins for three miles along the bastioned brow of the mountain. Just beyond the first group of stately ruins, we came on the building which was probably the palace built by Lakha Rana in 1373.
There was a shot, ringing down the Assiniboine and echoing in the woods, and little Francette by the stockade wall screamed. With the first flash of metal Maren Le Moyne had gripped her hands until the nails cut raw, standing where she had sprung at the stranger's kiss. She could no more move than the bastioned wall behind her. For a moment there was deathly silence after that shot.
Outside the bastioned and turreted walls of the castle, the new-born city grew up under its protecting shadows. Protected by such powerful arms as those of the princes of the Church, it grew up to be a second Toledo, a city of church spires and convent walls, but of which only a reduced number stand to-day to point back to the religious fervour of the middle ages.
It seemed almost that the bastioned wall was sensate, as if the small portholes here and there were living eyes, cold and hard with indifference, nay, even a-glitter with selfishness.
The settlement, backed by its grand 'bush' and faced by the sea, consists of a castle and a subject town; it wears, in fact, a baronial and old-world look. Fort Santo Antonio, a tall white house upon a bastioned terrace, crowns proudly enough a knob of black rock and low green growth.
"Here," he said, speaking aloud as he had learned to do when he was a captive among the Tartars that he might not forget the sound of his own tongue, "here, on this side should be a bastioned wall with some strong culverins. A lookout tower at this corner and, extending around north and south, a strong palisade that with vigilant sentries would ensure against attack except by water. If I "
"We will live together, you and I. Come and I will show you the place of hell." Together they journeyed down the crag and along the beach to the place where the gold, the grim god of this world, was fortressed and bastioned by its victims. The days went on; the weeks and months ambled by. Still the two lived together.
For there, on the small round table stood a model in dull red clay: unmistakably, unbelievably the rock fortress of Chitor: the walls scarped and bastioned; Khumba Rána's tower; and the City itself no ruin, but a miniature presentment of Chitor, as she might have been in her day of ancient glory, as Roy had been dimly aware of her in the course of his own amazing ride.
Bastioned upon the ocean cloud-tier was piled upon cloud-tier, spacious and lofty, until we gazed upon a Grand Canyon a myriad times vaster and more celestial than that of the Colorado. The clouds took on the same stratified, serrated, rose-rock formation, and all the hollows were filled with the opal blues and purple hazes of the Painted Lands.
With the sunset glow upon it; with the bastioned hills barren at their peaks, ridged and seamed looming clear and definite above the vast expanse of green, the colossal valley stretched, with no movement in it or above it in a vacuum-like stillness that might have reigned over the world on the dawn of creation's first morning. Harlan looked covertly at Barbara.
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