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Updated: May 27, 2025
Hira said: "I will do all, but only a Benares sari will not content me." "What do you want?" asked Surja. "She wants a husband," said Kamal. "Give her in marriage." "Very well," said Surja. "Would you like to have the Thakur Jamai? Say so, and Kamal will arrange it." "Then I will see," said Hira; "but there is already in the house a husband suited to my mind." "Who is it?" asked Surja.
Every man without exception carries a kris, stuck behind into the large waist-cloth which all wear, and it is generally the most valuable piece of property he possesses. A few days afterwards our long-talked-of excursion to Gunong Sari took place. Our party was increased by the captain and supercargo of a Hamburg ship loading with rice for China.
She drew her sari over her face and rocked to and fro. Her dusty bare foot protruded from her cotton skirt. She sat huddled together, her head in its coverings sunk between weak, shaking shoulders. Alicia considered her for an instant as a pitiable and degraded spectacle. Then she went over and touched her. "You are completely worn out," she said, "and it is almost dinner time.
In one swift rush sari blown backward she came: and he, smitten with self-reproach, folded her close; while she clung to him in mute passionate response. "Beloved," she whispered. "Not to worry any more in your secret heart. I told he understands." "Roy ? My darling! But what ?" His incoherence was a shameless admission of relief. "You couldn't you haven't told him ?" "Nevil, I have told him all.
Things looked anxious for a bit, but by this morning's dawn all are dug in, cool, confident. "But for the number and good shooting of Turkish field guns and howitzers, Birdwood would surely have carried the whole main ridge of Sari Bair.
Ayah might not be exactly beautiful, but she was harmonious. Her body was well proportioned, her sari fell in gracious flowing lines, and she moved with dignity. Without knowing why, Tony felt that there was something pleasing to the eye in Ayah. Hannah, on the contrary, was the reverse of graceful; stumpy and heavy-footed, she gave an impression of abrupt terminations.
Petted by a college full of friendly English girls, she had very soon lost what little shyness she ever possessed. Now and again, when his eyes challenged hers, she would veil them and watch him surreptitiously; one moment approving his masculine grace; the next, boldly asking herself: "Does he see how I am wearing the favourite sari and how my coral beads make my lips look red?"
Each of the other sisters threw round his neck a garland of flowers woven by herself. Decked in a pink Sari and dazzling jewels, his wife Arunlekha was waiting in a side room, her face lit up with smiles and blushes.
A single time she circled far aloft and then straight as an arrow she sped away. I watched her until the distant haze enveloped her and she had disappeared. I was alone. My first concern was to discover where within Pellucidar I might be and in what direction lay the land of the Sarians where Ghak the Hairy One ruled. But how was I to guess in which direction lay Sari?
Not caring to venture back into the canyon, where I might fall prey either to the cave bear or the Sagoths I continued on along the ledge, believing that by following around the mountain I could reach the land of Sari from another direction.
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