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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Otherwise the firing would be over by this time." The straggling street that formed this end of the town was quiet and deserted, save for a few scared women and children, who were standing in the roadway, and who scurried back to their houses at the first sound of our horses' hoofs. "Dismount, and turn the horses loose!" Loris commanded.
Towards the close of the reign of Alexander II. , when Count Loris Melikof, with the sanction and approval of his august master, was preparing to introduce a system of liberal political reforms, it was intended to abolish the gendarmerie as an organ of political espionage, and accordingly the direction of it was transferred from the so-called Third Section of his Imperial Majesty's Chancery to the Ministry of the Interior; but when the benevolent monarch was a few months afterwards assassinated by revolutionists, the project was naturally abandoned, and the Corps of Gendarmes, while remaining nominally under the Minister of the Interior, was practically reinstated in its former position.
That big, rough-looking man who carried Anne off " "He was the Grand Duke Loris." "So I guessed when you spoke of him just now; and at the time I knew, of course, that he was not what he appeared, for he didn't act up to his disguise." "He did when it was necessary!" I said emphatically, remembering how he had slanged the hotel servant that evening at Petersburg.
And he'd gotten into this by himself! He'd chosen it! He'd practically asked for it! He began strongly to share his grandfather's disillusioned view of brains. After a long time the door of the cell opened. Thal was back, chastened. "Don Loris wants to talk to you," he said in a subdued voice. "He's not pleased." Hoddan took another gulp of the wine.
There was quite a crowd now on the steps of the synagogue, a crowd of weeping women yes, and weeping men, too, who pressed around Anne, jostling each other in the attempt to kiss her hands, or even the hem of her gown. She looked utterly exhausted, and I saw, not without a queer pang at heart, that Loris had his arm round her, was indeed, rather carrying, than merely supporting her.
The spaceboat's visionscreens showed Don Loris' stronghold as immense, dark and menacing. Banners flew from its turrets, their colors bright in the ruddy light of near-sunset. The gate remained closed. For a long time there was no sign that his landing had been noted. Then there was movement on the battlements, and a figure began to descend outside the wall.
"There's only one spaceship here a month," he observed politely, "so I'll be around. If you want to get in touch with me, ask Don Loris. I'm going to visit him while I look over professional opportunities on Darth." He went out once more. Somehow he felt more cheerful than a half-hour since, when he'd landed as the only passenger from the space liner.
"Yes," I answered, noticing as I spoke that he stood at the top of a narrow spiral staircase. "That is well. Approach, Highness; all is safe," he whispered down the darkness behind him, and flattened himself against the narrow wall space, as a second figure came into sight, the Grand Duke Loris himself, who greeted me with outstretched hand.
The singularly-large and intense eyes of the loris have attracted the attention, of the Singhalese, who capture the creature for the purpose of extracting them as charms and love-potions, and this they are said to effect by holding the little animal to the fire till its eyeballs burst.
What'd he do with it? He could've kept it in this boat here. We could take a quick look! What Don Loris don't know don't hurt him!" "I'm going to find Hoddan first," said Thal, with dignity. "We don't have to carry him outside so's Don Loris knows we're looking for loot, but I'm going to find him first." There were other men in the spaceboat now. A full dozen of them.
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