THE SLAVE GIRL OF AGRA
lofty wall which man has never yet crossed and come back alive. Thou shalt see those whose faces man has not seen."
"But wherefore this mad adventure?"
"Does thy heart fail? There is time yet to return."
"My heart fails at nothing which my duty bids me do. Show me that my duty bids me desecrate the sacred Zenana of our great and honoured Emperor, and to steal into the precincts of the royal ladies in the disguise of a woman."
"She who will yet be the most illustrious among the royal ladies has commanded thee to come. From her lips thou shalt receive her commands."
"Lead, and I will follow."
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