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Have I done aught but serve thee to the end thou dost desire?... Thou shouldst be grateful to me, rather than menace me with thine anger.... And," she added sweetly, "it were well for thee that thou shouldst bear always in mind my intimacy with thy secret. If thou art king, then am I more than queen, in Khandawar." "I am not angry, Naraini," he told her humbly, "but mad with love for thee "
That was a near call as near a one as ever you'll know, my boy; and we're not out yet. What are you doing?" he added, as Amber stopped to pick up the lever. "It isn't a bad weapon," said the Virginian, "at a pinch. You'll want your gun, and that she-devil, Naraini, got mine." "Keep the one I gave you and don't be afraid to use it. I've another and a couple of knives for good measure.
It's simply a dodge of hers to gain time. Shut her up and take her away she's as dangerous as a wildcat!" "Nay, I will not be gagged nor taken hence till I have said my say!" With a sudden furious wrench Naraini wrested her arms from the grasp of the guards and sprang away, eluding with lithe and snake-like movements their attempts to recapture her.
Thou wouldst have sweet patience in the waiting, Salig Singh!... Let matters rest as they be, my lord" this a trace imperiously. "Leave the man to me: I stand sponsor for him until the Gateway shall have received him and and perhaps for a little afterwards." "Thou art right as ever." He lifted his gaze to meet hers and his eyes flamed. "I leave my life on your knees, Naraini.
The Maharana seemed to find it not unpleasant, for he smiled grimly beneath his moustache. "There was work to be done," he said briefly "for the Cause. And thou how hast thou wrought, O Breaker of Hearts?" The woman cast the silver mouthpiece from her and clasped her hands behind her head. "Am I not Naraini?" "The man is ours?" "Mine," she corrected amiably.
"Your pardon, madam," he said gravely. Naraini retreated, shaking with fury, and Amber employed the respite to recognise Sophia Farrell in the woman on the charpoy. She was still seated, prevented from rising by bonds about her wrists and ankles, and though unnaturally pale, her anguish of fear and despair had set its marks upon her face without one whit detracting from the appeal of her beauty.
"Thou wilt not draw back in the end?" Her arms clipped him softly about the neck and drew his head down so that her breath was fragrant in his face, her lips a sweet peril beneath his own. "Thou wilt brave whatever may be prepared for thy testing, for the sake of Naraini, who awaits thee beyond the Gateway; O my Beloved?" "I shall not be found wanting."
After a while, having seen nothing but the jackals, an owl or two, several thousand bats and a crawling thing which had lurched along in the shadow of a wall some distance away, giving an admirable imitation of a badly wounded man pulling himself over the ground, and making strange gutteral noises Amber concluded to wait for the guide Naraini had promised him.
Ere any come to disturb us? Nay, but who should come between husband and wife in the first hour of their reunion after many years of separation? Is it not known does not all Khandawar know how I have waited for thee, almost thy widow ere thy wife, all this weary time?... Or is it that thy heart hath forgotten thy child-bride? Am I scorned, O my Lord I, Naraini?
At all events, she brooded over the thing, and when, five years or so ago, Mrs. Farrell died and the Colonel sent for Sophia to join him in India, Naraini well, she rebelled. He refused to let her leave England, and she finally took the bit in her teeth and ran away vanished and was never heard of again until Sophia recognised her in Kathiapur."
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