[The Brethren by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Brethren CHAPTER Seventeen: The Brethren Depart from Damascus 18/26
Nor, indeed, should I have thought well of you had you decided otherwise.
Now, henceforth we are enemies in the eyes of all men, and I shall strive to slay you as you will strive to slay me.
But as regards this lady, have no fear.
What I have promised shall be fulfilled.
Bid her farewell, whom you will see no more." "Who taught your lips to say such words, O Sultan ?" asked Godwin. "Is it given to you to read the future and the decrees of God ?" "I should have said," answered Saladin, "'Whom you will see no more if I am able to keep you apart.' Can you complain who, both of you, have refused to take her as a wife ?" Here Rosamund looked up wondering, and Wulf broke in: "Tell her the price.
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