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So this was the explanation of the entwined emotions of joy and terror that had changed so appallingly Throckmartin's face and the faces of all the Dweller's slaves! The handmaiden's eyes grew bright, alert, again; the brooding passed from her face; the golden voice that had been so deep found its own familiar pitch. "I listened while the Three spoke to you," she said.
"And I," said George Heriot, "will humbly pray of Lady Mansel, that she will lend some of her handmaiden's apparel to this giddy-brained girl; for I shall forfeit my reputation if I walk up Tower Hill with her in that mad guise and yet the silly lassie looks not so ill in it neither." "I will send my coach with you instantly," said the obliging lady.
"Because he wooed me! Because he is mine!" "That is a lie!" The handmaiden's voice shook with rage. "It is a lie! But here and now he shall choose, Yolara. And if you he choose, you and he shall go forth from here unmolested for Yolara, it is his happiness that I most desire, and if you are that happiness you shall go together. And now, Larry, choose!"
"I 'clare to goodness, Miss Sally, I never teched it!" Miss Sally directed a critical glance at her handmaiden's red-coifed head. "No," she said to herself softly, "it felt nicer than wool, anyway!" In spite of the awkward termination of his visit, or perhaps BECAUSE of it, Courtland called again at the plantation within the week.
He believed the servants were all in the other wing, but was not sure; he could only hope that he might not stumble on some handmaiden's room by mistake! A door to the right, at the end of the passage. He tried the key. Thank goodness! It turned without too much noise, and he found himself on the threshold of a big lumber-room, his candle throwing lines of dusty light across it.
Were Zomara, the god whom we worship, to be worshipped in perfectness, the whole length of our lives would not suffice to lie prostrate before him. But the merciful Avenger of Wrong expecteth not more from us than we are able to pay him. True it is that we should begin early, and late take rest, and daily and hourly offer up our praises and petitions to the throne of his handmaiden's grace.
"Tell them that upon their mouths I place my foot, so!" she stamped upon the dais viciously "and that in their faces I spit!" and her action was hideously snakelike. "And say last to them, you handmaiden, that if you they dare send to Yolara again, she will feed you to the Shining One! Now go!" The handmaiden's face was white. "Not unforeseen by the three was this, Yolara," she replied.
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