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Updated: May 24, 2025
Victoria was glad that Maïeddine had let her have these desert thoughts alone, for they made her feel at home in the strange world her fancy peopled; but the touch of the thyme-scented ghosts was cold. It was good to turn back at last towards the tents, and see how the camp-fire crimsoned the star-dusk. "Thou wert happy alone?" Maïeddine questioned her jealously. "I was not alone." He understood.
"Will you lend the mirror to me or do you value it too much to risk having it smashed?" "Of course I'll lend it. But " she looked up at him anxiously, in the blue star-dusk. "What are you going to do?" "Nothing particular, unless we've reason to believe that an attack will be made; that is, if a lot of Arabs come near the bordj.
If she met Somerled in the right spirit, with the right word and the right look ... in this perfumed star-dusk and stillness, when they had not seen each other for days ... and he knew she had been waiting here for him, thinking of him ... and he saw that she had put on the dress he liked so much on shipboard, the one she had worn the last night, when he told her his life-story ... might not the thing that she desired happen?
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