Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
'What news, my lord, what news? cried the guard. 'Incubu rolls Sorais back, as the wind a cloud, I answered, and was gone. One more effort, gallant horse, and yet more gallant man! So, fall not now, Daylight, and hold thy life in thee for fifteen short minutes more, old Zulu war-dog, and ye shall both live for ever in the annals of the land. On, clattering through the sleeping streets.
Throughout this long and eloquent address Good had been perfectly silent, but when the tale began to shape itself so aptly to his own case, he coloured up, and when he learnt that what had passed between him and Sorais had been overseen he was evidently much distressed. And now, when at last he spoke, it was in a tone of humility quite foreign to him.
Indeed, though Sorais' cry against the 'foreign wolves' or, to translate it more accurately, 'foreign hyenas' was sure to go down very well with the nobles and the priests, it was not as we learnt, likely to be particularly effectual amongst the bulk of the population.
'And thinkest thou, Nyleptha, she said in notes which pealed through the great hall like a clarion, 'thinkest thou that I, Sorais, a Queen of the Zu-Vendi, will brook that this base outlander shall sit upon my father's throne and rear up half-breeds to fill the place of the great House of the Stairway?
Well, they gave her a royal funeral, and there was an end of her. It was a month after the last act of the Sorais tragedy that a great ceremony was held in the Flower Temple, and Curtis was formally declared King-Consort of Zu-Vendis.
From the direction of the quarters of the maids of honour came a succession of faint sniggerings; but the apartments of Sorais herself whom I devoutly pitied if she happened to be there were silent as the grave.
And the black one too, ah, he was a man. I would fain have seen him hurl Nasta from the stairway. 'Thou art a strange woman, Sorais, I said; 'I pray thee now plead with the Queen Nyleptha, that perchance she may show mercy unto thee. She laughed out loud.
By the time that I had finished my reflections both the Queens were on the thrones, for all this had happened in about six seconds. Once more the unseen trumpets blared out, and then the Court seated itself, and Queen Sorais motioned to us to do likewise.
'I have nought to say save that I would I had won instead of lost. Sir Henry bent towards Nyleptha and whispered something that I could not catch, and then the Queen spoke. 'Sorais, ever have I been a good sister to thee.
'How darest thou? she broke in, stamping her foot. 'Hast my false lord sent thee to me to insult me also? Who art thou, stranger, that thou shouldst speak to me, the Queen, after this sort? How darest thou? 'Yea, I dare. Listen. The moments which thou dost waste in idle anger may well cost thee thy crown and all of us our lives. Already Sorais' horsemen go forth and call to arms.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking