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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Who's that moving in the shadow down below?" she asked him suddenly. He leaned out beside her and gazed into the shadow. Then he called softly in a tongue she did not know and some one rose up from the shadow and answered him. "Are we spied on, Risaldar?" "Nay. Guarded, heavenborn! That man is my half-brother. May I take the ayah through that doorway?" "Why not question her in here?"
"Beauty there is in the book; exquisite glimpses into the loveliness of nature here and there shine out from its lines, a charm wanting which meditative writing always seems to have a defect; beautiful gleams, too, there are of the choicest things of art, and frequent allusions by the way to legend or picture of the religious past; so that, while you read, you wander by a clear brook of thought, coining far from the beautiful hills, and winding away from beneath the sunshine of gladness and beauty into the dense, mysterious forest of human existence, that loves to sing, amid the shadow of human darkness and anguish, its music of heavenborn consolation; bringing, too, its pure waters of cleansing and healing, yet evermore making its praise of holy affection and gladness; while it is still haunted by the spirits of prophet, saint, and poet, repeating snatches of their strains, and is led on, as by a spirit from above, to join the great river of God's truth. . . .
She looked up with a start, to find him standing close beside her. "Mahommed Khan! You're panting! What ails you?" "The heat, heavenborn and I am old." His left hand was on his saber-hilt, thrusting it toward her respectfully; she noticed that it trembled. "Have I the heavenborn's leave to lock the ayah in that inner room?" "Why, Risaldar?" "The fiend had this in her possession!"
"In the jail," Yasmini said slowly, "you could not spy on my doings, nor report my sayings." "Heavenborn, I am dumb! Only take back the money and I am dumb forever, never seeing or having seen or heard either you or this sahib here! Take back the money!" But Yasmini was not so easily balked of her intention. "Put his thumb-print on it, Tom Tripe, and see that he writes his name."
We can reach them if we make a circuit on the flank here!" "But can we get through, Risaldar? Won't they see us and cut us off?" "Heavenborn!" he answered, "men who dare ride into a city temple and snatch thee from the arms of priests dare and can do anything! Take this, heavenborn take it as a keepsake, in case aught happens!"
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