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If you remember the story I told you, Araxes murdered with his own hand Ziska-Charmazel the woman who loved him." "He had perhaps grown weary of her," said Gervase, speaking with an effort, and still studying the exquisite loveliness of the bewitching face that was so close to his own, like a man in a dream.
He is supposed to be approaching his palace in triumph; the gates are thrown open to receive him, and coming out to meet him is the chief favorite of his harem, the celebrated dancer of that period Ziska-Charmazel." "Whom he afterwards murdered, you say?" queried Dr. Dean meditatively. "Yes. He murdered her simply because she loved him too well and was in the way of his ambition.
Old love revived, grew stronger in his soul, and his gaze rested on the shadowy form beside him, no longer with horror but with tenderness. She was Ziska-Charmazel, she had been his love the dearest portion of his life once in the far-off time; she had been the fairest of women and more than fair, she had been faithful! Yes, he remembered that, as he remembered Her!
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