The Three Sapphires (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Three Sapphires

The prince excused himself, saying: I think they're pretty well coming together.

The two men could hear a heavy tonga clatter up, followed by the light, whirring grind Of dogcart wheels and a medley of voices. As a group came through the palace, Swinton could hear the heavy guttural Of a German's Ach, Gott! About soma thing unpleasing.

There was a brief introduction and an immediate departure to the dining room.

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Excerpt from The Three Sapphires

From where they were on the marble terrace that reached from the palace to a little lake - the Lake of the Golden Coin - Lord Victor Gilfain and Captain Swinton could see the intricate maze of Darpore City's lights down on the plain, six miles away.

Over the feather-topped sal forest behind the palace a gorgeous moon was flooding the earth with light, turning to ribbons of gold the circling ripples on the jade lake, where mahseer and burbel splashed in play.

Rajah Darpore was leaning lazily against the fretwork marble balustrade just where the ghat steps dipped' down under the water. He was really Prince Ananda, the shazada, for down in the city of glittering lights still lived his father, the maharajah; but it had become customary to address the prince as rajah.

A servant came and took their empty sherry glasses.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.