![]() ![]() She was being thoroughly punished for her unconventionality now! ![]() She ought never to have let him speak to her, when viewing the Sphinx. ![]() Why was he such a wretch as to humiliate her so? She felt horribly small. while one of his friends called him "Gritzko." The name fell pleasantly on her ears - "Gritzko". "Prince Milas Lovski," Tamara heard an acquaintance say. The tourists had returned to Cairo, and only an Arab or two lingered near the boy who held Tamara's camel, and then gradually slunk away thus, but for Hafis, she was alone-alone with her thoughts and the Sphinx. The Sphinx was smiling its eternal smile. In all the mad scenes which he and his companions, I am afraid, have enacted in the Fontonka house, there is one set of rooms no one has dared to enter-her rooms-and he keeps flowers there, and an ever-burning lamp. His mother worshipped him, but she died when he was scarcely eighteen, and his father before that. ![]()
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