PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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A Princess she, though not by birth: Her title's from above, Her heritage the right of worth, Her empire that of love.
XIV. NEW FRIENDS, NEW DUTIES, AND A NEW LOSS
XVI. THE PRINCESS HOLDS A "DRAWING-ROOM"
[Illustration: 'You must have had a big haul father, to make such a rent!' said Sara as she drew the fish net toward her.]
The high, petulant voice rose shrilly through the steep, narrow stairway, and seemed to pierce the ears of the young girl who sat under the low, sloping roof, nearly bent double over the book in her lap.
She involuntarily raised both hands to her ears, as if the noise distressed her, then dropped them, straightened herself resolutely, and answered in a pleasant contralto, whose rich notes betokened power and repression,--
"Your fayther's got to hev them nets mended right away, he says, an' my han's is in the dough. Be you at them books agin?"
Arthur Conan Doyle
