Category: Historical Novels
On the second day of their wandering, the deep shade of the forest scenery, in which they had hitherto been involved, softened into a less impervious gloom, the heights of the black rock of Bembhar rose on their view, and the lovely and enchanting glen which reposes at its nor...
However a propensity to evil may be inherent in human nature, it is impossible to conceive an idea of abstract wickedness, uninfluenced by some powerful passion, and existing wi...
3. CHAPTER XV.Luxima, restored to life, was still feeble and exhausted: but though faded, she was still lovely; and, being immediately recognized as a _Hindu_, that peculiar circumstance awak...
1. CHAPTER XIII.On the second day of their wandering, the deep shade of the forest scenery, in which they had hitherto been involved, softened into a less impervious gloom, the heights of the b...
2. CHAPTER XIV.The left arm of the Missionary had suffered from the flames; Luxima was the first to perceive it: she applied to it the only remedy which nature afforded them in a spot so desol...
4. CHAPTER XVI.It was night when the travellers reached the suburbs of the ancient city of Tatta; the caravan had been lessened of its numbers during its progress; those who remained, now disp...