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Bessie and Zara and I are going to try to get enough honor beads to be Fire-Makers as soon as we get back to the city, and that's one of the ways I'm going to try." "Then you've started already?" said Eleanor. "No, not yet," said Dolly. "I'm going to wait " A shout of laughter interrupted her. "Oh, yes, we know! Until you have just one or two last ones " Dolly flushed dangerously for a moment.
"I think you are a stunner, Zara," he said. "Two of our fellows, cousins of mine, who were in church with me, congratulated me awfully. And now I hope you're soon going to cut the cake?" And Tristram wondered why her mutinous mouth had quivered and her eyes become full of mist. She was thinking of her own little brother, far away, who did not even know that there would be any cake.
Five minutes later the girl came out, the old housekeeper accompanying her to the door, the car emerged from the lane, Zara el-Khala entered it and was driven away. I could see no one seated beside the chauffeur. I started my "Indian" and leapt in pursuit. As I had anticipated, the route was Eastward, and I found myself traversing familiar ground.
We will bury her to-morrow." As a man walks in a dreadful dream, Sir Jasper arose, quitted the room, mounted his horse, and rode away. One dark, menacing glance Zara shot after him; then she sat stonily down by her dead. All that night, all next day, Zara kept her post, neither eating, nor drinking, nor sleeping.
And Francis Markrute, deeply distressed, telephoned at once for his physician. His betrothed had gone back to the country after luncheon, so he could not even have the consolation of her sympathy, and where Tristram was he did not know. For the four following days Zara lay in her bed, seriously ill.
Osman had not his part by heart, but still Zara covered all deficiencies: and Osman did no worse than other Osmans had done before him, till he came to the long speech, beginning with, "The sultans, my great ancestors, bequeath'd Their empire to me, but their tastes they gave not." Powerful prompting got him through the first six lines decently enough, till he came to
If we think everything will come right in the end, we can usually make them work out our way. But if we start in thinking that nothing is going to be right, why, then we're licked before we begin, and there's not much use trying at all. Now, you didn't say Zara would feel differently if things came out right. You said she would when everything was straightened out. And that's the spirit that wins.
"Death!" she replied with a strange smile, in which there was both pathos and triumph. I started at her unexpected reply, and a kind of foreboding chilled my blood. I endeavoured, however, to speak cheerfully as I said: "Why, of course, death sticks more closely to us than any friend or relative. But you look fitter to receive the embraces of life than of death, Zara."
In the evening the sultan made his appearance, and I prostrated myself at his feet, for I did not wish to proceed too far at once. He raised me up and appeared delighted. "You are right, Zara," said he; "no jewels or dress could add to the splendour of your beauty." "Pardon me, O gracious lord," replied I, "but if thy slave is to please thee, may it be by her natural charms alone.
Running into the hall, I thrust a card in the hand of a concierge who stood there. "Announce to Mlle. Zara el-Khala that I must see her at once," I said. The man smiled and returned the card to me. "Mlle. Zara el-Khala left Paris at seven o'clock, monsieur!" "What! I cried left Paris!" "But certainly.
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