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Prepared as the mistress of the zenana was to find a great change in the captive's appearance, she was startled when, soon after daybreak, she went in to see her. The lower part of her face was greatly swollen, her lips were covered with white blotches. There were great red scars round the mouth and on her forehead, and the skin seemed to have been completely eaten away.
"But," replied Middlemas, blushing even through his base disguise at the consciousness of his abject conduct, "I will have no force on her inclinations." "Such truce she shall have as the laws of the Zenana allow," replied the female tyrant. "A week is long enough for her to determine whether she will be the willing mistress of a princely and generous lover."
It was, to all appearance, an Indian girl in the dress of one of the attendants of the zenana. "What is it, child?" he said. "You must have mistaken me for someone else." "No, Bahador," she said, "it is yourself I wanted to thank.
You could not have done more than you have done. But now we know, we will aid you to save her." "How long will your daughter be before she comes? It is horrible waiting here." "You must have patience, sahib. It will be no easy work to get the lady away. There will be guards and women to look after her. A lady is not to be stolen out of a zenana as a young bird is taken from its nest."
The Bluestocking paused and looked round the circle of interested faces. Even the Ass was intent on her words, but the Good Stockbroker’s eyes were averted and the Bluestocking was quite pale as she continued: ‘Of course the word at once recalls the harem, the zenana, but nothing of that kind would do. The wives would have to live separately, as the Mormons do, each in her own home, with her own circle of interests and duties, her own lifework. No one ought to live in idleness, which is the cause of all sorts of discord and trouble. Every woman should work at something, and to help someone. I’m not thinking now, of course, of happily married and contented women, but of the thousands leading miserable, dull, and lonely lives, who would be infinitely happier if they had a certain week to look forward to, at regular recurring intervals, when their husbands would be living with them. It would bring love and human interest and, what is most important of all, a
Once when he was a small boy his father let him come with him into the ordinary treasury under the zenana, and he heard what sounded to him like men working underground not very far off. He couldn't make out where the sound came from, and his father diddled him with some fairy-tale to account for it, but now he remembered.
"Why these airs of the zenana with one enlightened like yourself...?" He broke off and retreated abruptly. For a shadowy figure had sauntered into view. Arúna sprang towards it zenana airs forgotten. "Oh, Roy !" "Did you call, Arúna?" he asked. "Thought I heard you. This fellow bothering you ? I'll settle him " Turning, he said politely: "My cousin is here, under my escort, to make pujah, guru-ji.
"Has my friend not perceived yet that this city is in the eyes of its inhabitants sacred even as a mosque or a zenana? He sees only eyes beaming with affection as he rides through the streets?" "Not exactly," admitted Gerrard. "But I thought that the people were irritated by the action of the escort in clearing the way and perhaps also by seeing me riding your Highness's horse.
Before the high tribunal of priests, before the unhappy Kathlyn, before the astonished Umballa, appeared Ramabai and Pundita, between them the young woman of the zenana, now almost dead with terror. "Hold!" cried Ramabai when the soldiers started toward him to eject him from the temple. "What!" said Umballa; "will you recant?" "No, Durga Ram. I stand here before you all, an accuser!
Luke made induced her to place the whole matter before the Church. She penned a long letter, the writing of which so exhausted her that she scarcely knew whether or not the words were rightly spelled. It went to Dr. George Robson, then beginning his long and honourable editorship of the Record, and appeared in the next issue under the signature of "One of the Zenana Staff."
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