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Updated: May 9, 2025
The King whom a chastening Providence has set over the northern half of the Island, has been our guest for the space of four weeks, together with the gold-bought English woman who is known as his 'Danish wife." The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
But though high up in the mountains, the young city was neither too far nor too high for vice to reach it; and so it came about that a certain woman, whose gold-bought smiles had become a trifle too mocking and satirical to be attractive, had come to the young city and placed herself at the head of an establishment where, at command, every one from sunset laughed and was merry, and held out hungry, grasping little hands for the gold showered upon them laughed, with weary, pain-filled eyes laughed, with stiff, tired lips sometimes but still laughed till sunrise and then, well, who cared what they did then?
I hope she has ceased to eat her heart out with vain longing for her lover. He was noble minded and spoke the truth. How rare in a Hellene. But what will you do with these two gold-bought traitors, ‘friends of the king’ indeed?” Mardonius’s face grew stern. “I have promised them the lordships of Athens and of Sparta.
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