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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Because I find that the law of my faith is against it, Lord." "Is that all, Larico?" I asked with a smile. "No, Lord. Because I find that the Inca would not suffer it and swears to kill all who attempt to touch the lady Quilla." "Is that all, Larico?" "No, Lord. Because I find that a woman who has been betrothed to one of the royal blood may never pass to another man."
"I have seen the squaws in their wigwams at work on these things, sitting cross-legged on their mats, some had the quilla in a little bark dish on their laps, while others held them in their mouths not a very safe nor delicate way; but Indians are not very nice in some of their habits," said Mrs. Frazer.
The matter of jealousy is small and private; so is the matter of love. But, Master, you have not told me outright whether you love the lady Quilla, and, what is more important, whether she loves you." "Then I will tell you now. I do and she does." "You love the lady Quilla and she says that she loves you, which may or may not be true, or if true to-day may be false to-morrow.
But Quilla was snatched from me by the law of their accursed faith, and whatever else Kari might give, he would never give me this lady of the Moon, since, as he had said, to him this would be sacrilege. The ceremonies began. First Larico, the high-priest of the Sun, clothed in his white sacerdotal robes, made sacrifice upon a little altar which stood in front of the Inca's throne.
It was a dreary business, Lord Hurachi, for though those Virgins may be so holy, some of them are very old and hideous and of course Quilla as a novice came last in the line conducted by two Mama-conas who are cousins of my own.
She looked at me again and this time a new light shone in her eyes which I could not misinterpret. "Do you mean that you will marry me, Quilla?" I muttered. "Such was my father's wish, Lord, but what is yours? Oh! have done," she went on in a changed voice. "For what have we suffered all these things and gone through such long partings and dangers so dreadful?
Therefore he was ready to make a firm peace with the new Inca, if in addition to what he offered he would surrender to him Quilla who was his heiress and would be Queen of the Chancas after him. With these words I went back to Kari, only to find that on this matter he was hard as a rock of the mountains.
If I could win Kari over to his interests, then he swore by the Sun that he would gain me access to the lady Quilla and help me to fly with her, if so we both wished, while I on my part swore to plead his cause with Kari. Moreover, as he showed me, there was little fear that either of us would break these oaths since henceforth each lay in the power of the other.
"Which time would be very soon, I think, Quilla, seeing that he who had spoiled all this pretty plot would scarcely be left long upon the earth, even if he wished to stay there. Yet I say: Do not die live on." "To become Urco's woman! That is strange counsel from a lover's lips, Lord; such as would scarcely have been given by any of our nobles."
At least Urco wearies me with his coarse crimes and his drunkenness, though the army loves him because he is a butcher and liberal. We quarrelled the other day over the small matter of this lady Quilla, and he threatened me till I grew wrath and said that I would not hand him my crown as I had purposed to do.
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