chater even aravi tahbaan (第3/7页)
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"Now don' t keep on fussing, there' s a dear,"said Lasaraleen..We' ll get you some proper clothes in a moment. And here we are !"
The bearers had stopped and the litter was being lowered. When the curtains had been drawn Aravis found that she was in a courtyard-garden very like the one that Shasta had been taken into a few minutes earlier in another part of the city. Lasaraleen would have gone indoors at once but Aravis reminded her in a frantic whisper to say something to the slaves about not telling anyone of their mistress' s strange visitor.
"Sorry, darling, it had gone right out of my head,"saidLasareleen. "Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks.There."
Although Lasaraleen had said she was dying to hear Aravis' s story,she showed no sign of really wanting to hear it at all. She was,in fact,much better at talking than at listening. She insisted on Aravis having a long and luxurious bath Calormene baths are famous and then dressing her up in the finest clothes before she would let her explain anything.The fuss she made about choosing the dresses nearly drove Aravis mad. She remembered now that Lasaraleen had always been like that, interested in clothes and parties and gossip. Aravis had always been more interested in bows and arrows and horses and dogs and swimming.You will guess that each thought the other silly. But when at last they were both seated after a meal it was chiefly of the whipped cream and jelly and fruit and ice sort in a beautiful pillared room which Aravis would have liked better if Lasaraleen' s spoiled pet monkey hadn' t been climbing about it all the time, Lasaraleen at last asked her why she was running away from home.
When Aravis had finished telling her story, Lasaraleen said, "But,darling, why don't you marry Ahoshta Tarkaan ? Everyone' s crazy about him.My husband says he is beginning to be one of the greatest men in Calormen.He has just been made Grand Vizier now old Axartha has died.Didn't you know ?"
"I don't care.I can't stand the sight of him," said Aravis.
"But, darling, only think ! Three palaces, and one of them that beautiful one down on the lake at Ilkeen. Positively ropes of pearls, I' m told. Baths of asses' milk. And you' d see such a lot of me."
"He can keep his pearls and palaces as far as I'm concerned," said Aravis.
"You always were a queer girl,Aravis," said Lasaraleen. "What more do you want ?"
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