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Finally she turned to Agon and seemed to give some sort of qualified assent, for he bowed at her words; and as she spoke she moved her hands as though to emphasize what she said; while all the time Sorais kept her chin on her hand and smiled. Then suddenly Nyleptha made a sign, the trumpets blew again, and everybody rose to leave the hall save ourselves and the guards, whom she motioned to stay.
After he had told his tale Umslopogaas went off unconcernedly to get his morning meal, and Sir Henry and I fell to talking. At first he was very bitter against Good, who, he said, was no longer to be trusted, having designedly allowed Sorais to escape by some secret stair when it was his duty to have handed her over to justice. Indeed, he spoke in the most unmeasured terms on the matter.
That is human nature, which the Positivists tell us is just perfection; so no doubt it is all right. 'And what art thou going to do with Sorais? I asked her. Instantly her bright brow darkened to a frown. 'Sorais, she said, with a little stamp of the foot; 'ah, but Sorais! Sir Henry hastened to turn the subject. 'You will soon be about and all right again now, old fellow, he said.
'It is not seemly, she murmured, 'and tomorrow Just then the music began to die in the last wail of the refrain, and Sorais slowly turned her round. 'I will be there, said Nyleptha, hurriedly; 'on thy life see that thou fail me not. It was night dead night and the silence lay on the Frowning City like a cloud.
To all of these Sorais, who I saw was employed in carefully taking us all in especially Curtis signified her approval by nodding.
In the sitting-chamber get near to her, and whisper to her to meet you at midnight by the Rademas statue at the end of the great hall. I will keep watch for you there. Now or never, Curtis. We passed on into the other room. Nyleptha was sitting, her hands before her, and a sad anxious look upon her lovely face. A little way off was Sorais talking to Good in her slow measured tones.
A glance at Sorais herself was enough to show that her mission was of no peaceful kind, for in place of her gold embroidered 'kaf' she wore a shining tunic formed of golden scales, and on her head a little golden helmet. In her hand, too, she bore a toy spear, beautifully made and fashioned of solid silver.
'Methinks my sister the Queen hath forgotten the chief count of the indictment, answered Sorais in her slow musical tones. 'It runs thus: "Thou didst strive to win the love of my lord Incubu." It is for this crime that my sister will slay me, not because I levied war. It is perchance happy for thee, Nyleptha, that I fixed my mind upon his love too late. 'Listen, she went on, raising her voice.
She looked earnestly at the map, and then, with a quickness of perception that in some women amounts almost to an instinct, she laid her finger upon this neck of rising ground, and turning to her husband, said, with a proud air of confidence and a toss of the golden head 'Here shalt thou meet Sorais' armies.
'Now, Curtis, now, I whispered, when she began the second verse, and turned my back. 'Nyleptha, he said for my nerves were so much on the stretch that I could hear every word, low as it was spoken, even through Sorais' divine notes 'Nyleptha, I must speak with thee this night, upon my life I must. Say me not nay; oh, say me not nay!
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