When within the glade, they took their hands from her.
She, shuddering instinctively, withdrew to a remote corner of the dell.
And then, oh, shame on their manhood!--Turks and heathens though they were--we could see that they had submitted her to the indignity of gagging her and binding her hands! Our Voivodin Teuta bound! To one and all of us it was like lashing us across the face.

I heard the Gospodar's teeth grind again.

But once more he schooled himself to calmness ere he said: "It is, perhaps, as well, great though the indignity be.

They are seeking their own doom, which is coming quickly.

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