singing-maid

Updated: May 17, 2025

Sah-luma smiled, as one who is tolerant of the whims of a hired buffoon, and, this time seating himself in his ebony chair, was about to commence dictating his Second Canto when Theos, yielding to his desire to speak aloud the idea that had just flashed across his brain said abruptly: "Has it ever seemed to thee, Sah-luma, as it now does to me, that there is a strange resemblance between thy imaginative description of the ideal 'Nourhalma, and the actual charms and virtues of thy strayed singing-maid Niphrata?"

Marie Corelli - Ardath