singing-maiden

Updated: May 27, 2025

And if thou shouldst chance to meet the singing-maiden of my household, Niphrata, bid her make haste homeward, she hath been absent since the break of morn, too long for my contentment. Maybe I did unwisely to give the child her freedom, as slave she would not have presumed to gad abroad thus wantonly, without her lord's permission.

Marie Corelli - Ardath