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The courtiers drew together in groups, and it seemed that a man's name was being bandied to and fro, dark shuttlecock to this painted throng. Damans Sedley, entering the antechamber by a small side door, swam into the ken of a number of eager players gathered around a gentleman of flushed countenance, who, with much swiftness and dexterity, was wreaking old grudges upon the shuttlecock.
Ceremoniously he took her hand and led her to an entrance beside which leaned a slender lad in a ragged blue jerkin and hose. "Robin, you will watch yonder at the great doors. Sweet lady, I stand here, and none shall enter. But remember that the time is short at any moment the gallery may fill." "There is no long time needed," said Damans.
Damans put forth her hand, and leaned for strength against the chimney-piece a beautiful woman in the heart of the glow from the fire. At first she said no word, for she was thinking dully. "If he comes no nearer, it must be true. If he crosses not the shadow on the floor between us, it must be true." At last she asked, in a low voice, "Is it true?"
But small outlying settlements hereabout were precarious places to live in, and the persistent damans generally caused them to be abandoned entirely from time to time. The road has averaged good to-day, and Mijamid is reached at four o'clock.
In the days when the bold Turkoman raiders were wont to make their dreaded damans almost up to the walls of Teheran, and such strongholds as this were the only safeguard of out-lying villagers, the interior of Lasgird fortress resembled a spacious amphitheatre, around which hundreds of huts rose, tier above tier, like the cells of a monster pigeon-house, affording shelter in times of peril to all the inhabitants of Lasgird, and to such refugees as might come in.
Cecily wrung her hands. "Now I must tell thee.... It is his honor that doth suffer. There is a thing that he did. He hath confessed, or surely there were no believing ... Damans, they call him traitor.... Ah!" "Ay, and I'll strike thee again an thou say that again!" cried Damaris. The younger woman shrank before the angry eyes, the disdain of the smiling lips.
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