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The Pool in the Desert

CHAPTER 1
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I'm none too confident, you know,' he added, with longer face.
'We go straight to Agra.

Could you come to Agra ?' 'Ideal!' he cried.

'The memory of Mumtaz! The garden of the Taj! I've always wanted to love under the same moon as Shah Jehan.

How thoughtful of you!' 'You must spend a few days with us in Agra,' I continued.

'And as you say, it is the very place to shrine your happiness, if it comes to pass there.' 'Well, I am glad to have extracted a word of kindness from you at last,' said Dacres, as the stewards came to lay the table.


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