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Updated: May 5, 2025
So, while Kinraid and Sylvia kept up their half-tender, half-jesting conversation, Kester was making up his slow persistent mind as to the desirability of the young man then present as a husband for his darling, as much from his being other than Philip in every respect, as from the individual good qualities he possessed.
She paused, Sah-luma's gaze rested on her intently, a half- amused, half-tender light leaping from under the drooping shade of his long, silky black lashes, she caught the look, and a little shiver ran through her delicate frame, she pressed one hand on her heart, and resumed in steadier and more even tones, "My lord has perhaps not heard of the disturbances of the early morning in the city?" she asked "The riotous crowd in the marketplace the ravings of the Prophet Khosrul? ... the sudden arrest and imprisonment of many, and the consequent wrath of the King?"
And though they were but echoes, they seemed this morning to touch him with half- pleasing, half-tender suggestiveness, two lines especially from the Idyl of Roses he had penned so long, ah! so very long ago, came floating through his brain like a message sent from some other world,
I turned back, and met the eyes of both, fixed upon me with that peculiar half-tender, half-regretful expression, with which so many old men look upon women as young as I. A smile came across my face, and I held out my hand involuntarily to the stranger. "You do not know who I am, my dear!" he said. The English voice and words went straight to my heart.
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