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" "Who is this Spirit?" said Leo eagerly. "I do not know, lord," he answered with impatience. "Can men see a spirit?" "_You_ ...

started by xemma789 on 06 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

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

What followed I will not describe, but never shall I forget the scene of those two heaps of worrying wolves, and of the maniac Khan, who yelled in his fiendish joy, and cheered on his death-hounds ...

started by xtiffany1599 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

Moreover, the present Khania, our hostess, was the last of the direct line of rulers, her husband and cousin having less of the blood royal in his veins, and as such the people were attached to her...

started by xcandy002 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

"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

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

There was a good deal of hanging in those days; and yet the authorities had an ugly way of reprieving condemned men on whom the sight-seers had been counting. An air of gloom would gather on my old...

started by xred456 on 28 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

" "A queen she is, and a great one, for in our land Khania means queen, though how, friend Holly, a man who has lain senseless can have learned this, I do not know. Nor do I know ...

started by xviet77896 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

Do you remember nothing?;Nothing, nothing at all, I answered earnestly.quot;But what of my friend?He also is better. The Khania Atene nurses him.Atene? I said. quot;That is an old Egyptian name. It...

started by xdora2211133 on 29 Nov 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

" "Atene, be plain, what will you with the man called Leo--that he should become your lover?" asked the Shaman. She stared him straight in the eyes, and answered boldly--...

started by xcandy002 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

"Then there's Jack and Mr. Stonecrop, and, deary me! not to have mentioned Mr. Coleman and Mrs. Coleman, and Miss Coleman, and Mrs. Crump. And then there's the clergyman that spoke to me i...

started by xcute489 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

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

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

" "Whom do you live with?" he asked. "My wicked old grannie," she replied. "You shouldn't call your grannie wicked," said the gentlema...

started by xketh147 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet

"'Cause if she was as sharp in the eyes as she used to be, she would find out I never eats her broken wittles, and then she'd know as I must get something somewheres." "D...

started by xemma789 on 29 Nov 14 no follow-up yet