[Montezuma’s Daughter by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMontezuma’s Daughter CHAPTER VIII 4/26
Here they are.' 'You took them!' 'Yes, I took them--I always take a fee, but I gave her back their weight in gold.
What is more, I told her where she might hide from the priests till the hunt is done with.
What I did not like to tell her is that her lover is the greatest villain who ever trod the streets of Seville. What was the good? She will see little more of him.
Hist! here comes the duchess--an astrological case this.
Where are the horoscope and the wand, yes, and the crystal ball? There, shade the lamps, give me the book, and vanish.' I obeyed, and presently met the great lady, a stout woman attended by a duenna, gliding fearfully through the darkened archways to learn the answer of the stars and pay many good pesos for it, and the sight of her made me laugh so much that I forgot quickly about the other lady and her woes. And now I must tell how I met my cousin and my enemy de Garcia for the second time.
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