watcher-on-high

Updated: June 20, 2025

I will keep your counsel, Mameena, but, because you are so beautiful and so wise, and because you say you are fond of me for which I thank you I pray you put away these fearful dreams of yours that in the end, whether they succeed or fail, will send you shivering from the world to give account of them to the Watcher-on-high." "Not so, O Macumazana," she said, with a proud little laugh.

Henry Rider Haggard - Child of Storm