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But time is rolling on ten years have elapsed since King Otho first stepped on the Hellenic soil the heroes of the war are sinking into the grave Miaulis, the best of the brave Zaimi, the sagacious timid Moreote noble Kolocotroni, the sturdy strewd old klephtic chieftain; these three representatives and leaders of numerous classes of their countrymen, now sleep in an honoured grave, and their followers no longer form a majority in the land.
Shall the daughter of the noble, though prodigal Zaimi, appear a beggar before her compeers or inferiors superiors she had none. Shall I bow my head before them, and with servile gesture sell my nobility for life?
You dream that you can restore him? Daedalus never wound so inextricable an error round Minotaur, as madness has woven about his imprisoned reason. Nor you, nor any other Theseus, can thread the labyrinth, to which perhaps some unkind Ariadne has the clue." "You allude to Evadne Zaimi: but she is not in England." "And were she," said Raymond, "I would not advise her seeing him.
She looked up wondering, and he saw that it was Evadne Zaimi. Evadne, once the idol of Adrian's affections; and who, for the sake of her present visitor, had disdained the noble youth, and then, neglected by him she loved, with crushed hopes and a stinging sense of misery, had returned to her native Greece. What revolution of fortune could have brought her to England, and housed her thus?
Among these, and highly distinguished by her, was Prince Zaimi, ambassador to England from the free States of Greece; and his daughter, the young Princess Evadne, passed much of her time at Windsor Castle. In company with this sprightly and clever Greek girl, the Countess would relax from her usual state.
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