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In matters temporal, the Khan of Kaloon.The Khan. Ah! you are married, lady, are you not?she answered, her face flushing. "And I will tell you what you soon must learn, if you have not lea...

started by xcathy147 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

What could it matter what people called him, so long as he did nothing he ought not to do? And, besides, God's baby was surely the best of names! Well, my little man, and what can you do?"...

started by xketi156 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

" "It's not more than three miles. But mind what you are about, you know." "Why do you say that?" "If you're after any mischief, she'll make yo...

started by xgreen789 on 24 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

The Khania need not be described. She was as she had been in the chambers of the Gate, only more weary looking; indeed her eyes had a haunted air and it was easy to see that the events of the previ...

started by xlisa123 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

Now echoing from the trodden earth of the towing-path--not that on which our ponies travelled, but the other on the west bank of the river--was heard the beat of the hoofs of a horse galloping furi...

started by xcathy147 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

He won't easily get one to make such a bargain, and I don't mean he shall get me. It would be a loss rather than a gain-- I do think--at least if I took less work out of our own horse." &a...

started by owen11158 on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

" "I am sorry to hear it--very sorry. At any rate there was the beautiful woman--the Khania--for I saw her plenty of times afterwards, and talked to her in my best modern Greek--b...

started by xcute489 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

"It is feared not," she answered, "for the river has not risen well and but few rains have fallen. Also the light that shone last night on the Fire-mountain is thought a ...

started by xketi156 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

He said, 'Show me your hair,' and I placed a lock of it in his hand. Presently he let it fall, and from that satchel which he wears about his neck drew out another tress of hair--oh! Simbri, my unc...

started by xlisa123 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

The robins, I see, have made the coal-house their home. Waster Lunny's dog never barks without rousing my sluggish cat to a joyful response. It is Dutch courage with the birds and beasts of the gle...

started by xangle44556 on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

Then came a turn to the left, and ten more paces of passage, and lastly near certain steps running to some place unknown, another sharp turn to the right which led to our old chamber. Down the long...

started by xtiffany1599 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

"Very well," said the fairy. "How strangely you talk!" said the prince. "Do I?" said the fairy. "Yes, you do," said the princ...

started by xblue123 on 24 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

The patriarch, twisted round the pump, made no reply, so I ventured to suggest to the bellman that he might find the gate easier. "Is there a gate?" said Snecky, in surprise at th...

started by xemma789 on 25 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

We saw that----" Here the kind-hearted lady broke out crying afresh. "May I go and see him?" I asked. "Yes," she sobbed. "You know your way to ...

started by xketi156 on 25 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

They kill us and we kill them, for they are jealous of their shrine, which none may visit save by permission, to consult the Oracle and to make prayer or offering in times of calamity, when a Khan ...

started by xdora2211133 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

She is the real ruler of this land, and I stand next to her." "Then I pray you," said Leo, "keep me out of the way of that drunken man, for, look you, if I am at...

started by xketh147 on 06 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

In a little while she opened her eyes and looked at him--so pitifully! The tears rose and flowed from her grey wrinkled cheeks, but she said never a word. She closed her eyes again, but the tears k...

started by xcandy002 on 25 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

I will tell him. You may be sure he will come. My father thinks you a very kind gentleman, and I know he is right, for I know your very own self, sir.Mr. Raymond smiled, and as they had now reached...

started by fiona3322116 on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

Hearses had hardly come in at this time, and the coffin was carried by the mourners on long stakes. The straggling procession of pedestrians behind wound its slow way in the waning light to the kir...

started by xfiona3322116 on 04 Dec 14 no follow-up yet

No one had a good word for him, and lately he had been flush of money. That was sufficient. There was a rush of angry men through the "pend" that led to his habitation, and he was...

started by xblack147 on 28 Nov 14 no follow-up yet