car-r-den

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then, just as far down in the east the sky lightened, she sat suddenly upright and clapped her jewelled hands. "Know'st thou the eunuch who guards the harem empty of women in the palace of ah! the barbarity of the name! E'u Car-r-den Ali? He who perchance would give one-half, nay, all of his great wealth in return for the coal-blackness of thy odorous skin.

Joan Conquest - The Hawk of Egypt