Youth saved her face from being drawn as his, but the heat and horror had begun to undermine youth's powers of resistance.
She looked more beautiful than ever, but no law lays down that a wraith shall be unlovely.

She had tried the personal appeal with him a hundred times, and argument a thousand; now, she used both in a concentrated, earnest effort to prevail over his stubborn will.

Her will was as strong as his, and yielded place to nothing but her sense of loyalty.

There were not only Rajputs, as the Rajputs knew, who could be true to a high ideal.

"I am sure that whoever that man is he must be the link between us and the safety Mahommed Gunga spoke of.