The King's Talisman — page 105: what you’re looking at

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—_— 96 THE KING'S TALISMAN. CHAPTER XIII. A DANGEROUS ENEMY AND HIS ALLIES. On the next morning Noureddin was stirring betimes, and ere the sun had burned up all the coolness, his train was in motion. For three hours he rode on in a thought- ful, silent mood, occasionally casting his eyes behind him to see that all was in order, and again sinking into a deep ~ reverie. He had noticed the strange manner of Selina on the previous evening, and he had noticed, too, the whisper of Miriam; but though his curiosity had been excited to its highest pitch, yet he had too much politeness to intrude any questioning. ‘The circumstance was not to be lightly passed over, nor thrown aside, however, for that there was some deep mystery hidden behind the whole, the youth felt assured; and he felt, too, that in some way its solution would materially affect him. At first he tried to persuade himself that Selina’s strange recognition of himself must have been the result of some peculiar coincidence of like- ness; but her manner had been too confident to adimit of such a supposition—and then her bearing afterward, when she had received the whispered answer of her attendant, was of itself a convincing proof that her first impressions had been fully confirmed. So deeply had Noureddin become buried in his reflections that he knew but little, if anything, of what was going on about him. ‘The whole train might have stopped, and for half an hour he would have ridden unsuspectingly along without them; but he was soon startled from his dreamy reverie by a quick cry from one of the eunuchs, and in an instant more Molech came dashing up to his side. (elo) Eomichbooks