heart-of-ice

Updated: June 18, 2025

"You must believe," she went on, "that I, who have ever hated men, that I I swear that it is true whose lips are purer than those mountain snows, I, the Khania of Kaloon, whom they name Heart-of-Ice, am but a shameless thing." And, covering her face with her hand, she moaned in the bitterness of her distress. "Nay," I said, "there may be reasons, explanations, if it pleases you to give them."

Henry Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She