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Well, let me return from these speculations to the history of the facts

that caused them

Just as--a little too late--I had o after

h the fence

gateway appeared the great, tall U by the hand a woles of copper,

ornaa, which

only those of the royal House were pernity and high blood were apparent in her face,

her carriage, her gestures, and all that had to do with her

Nandie the Sas not a great beauty, as was Maure was fine, and her stature like that of all the race of

Senzangakona--considerably above the average To begin with, she was

darker in hue, and her lips were rather thick, as was her nose; nor were

her eyes large and liquid like those of an antelope Further, she lacked

the infor mystery of Mameena's face, that at tiht and quick, sy sky, that seems to join the dis of fire, soft and th and splendour that it veils

Nandie had none of these attractions, which, after all, anywhere upon

the earth belong only to a feoeneration She was a

sih birth,