This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...in the morning and your going to rest in the evening. He cursed you at your meals and in your intercourse with the glorious Prince. He cursed you in sickness and in health, and hoped that your death might be made terrible, and your grave an abomination, the common defilement of all unclean and unholy things." "Do his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...in the morning and your going to rest in the evening. He cursed you at your meals and in your intercourse with the glorious Prince. He cursed you in sickness and in health, and hoped that your death might be made terrible, and your grave an abomination, the common defilement of all unclean and unholy things." "Do his prophecies ever come true?" "They are reported to have some truth in them, lady. I should not like to have my future told in the same language." "Rise, old man," said Rhoda, advancing and stooping towards the fakir, and putting her hand on his arm. The fakir shivered, leapt from the ground, flung his single garment from him, and rushed stark, and apparently terrified, through the lane of the Rajah's troopers into a neighbouring wood. "What did he call out?" she asked. "Defilement! defilement!" "Shall I be treated like that in Masalihon" she murmured aloud. "Lady," said the Eurasian, "in two hours the train which brought you returns on its journey." "Yes?" "If the curse has terrified you" "Well? Do not stop; let me hear all you have to say." "Then there is yet time to rejoin your people." "To go back, you mean, without having seen Masalihon, without having fulfilled my engagement with the Rajah: how strangely stupid you must be, to think that an old man's curse could have that effect on me! I shall go on board, if you please." The launch was superbly equipped in the cabin to which Rhoda was ushered. A curtain of rich amber silk separated an outer room from an inner, in which she found a couch prepared for her, from which she could look on either side to the banks of the river as they ascended. They soon cast off ...
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Add this copy of The Rajah and the Rosebud to cart. $42.58, new condition, Sold by Media Smart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hawthorne, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
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