Behind the Veil (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ethel Rolt-Wheeler

9780483830622: Behind the Veil (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483830623 ISBN 13: 9780483830622

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Sometimes the anguish of the controlled eyelids became so tense, that they must have transgressed my will-power, and hurried me to a horrible death, but for the weight that the giant African set upon them. He stood at the other end of the group of musicians, to keep watch over our glances, lest any of them should stray; but there seemed no moment that I was free of his observation. His ugly stolidity of alert ness, though it saved me from the mad promptings of my heart, did but increase the torment; it precluded that half glimpse through half-shut eyelids that I might have thought to dare. And with every day the prick of desire became more importunate; with every day more racking the agony of control.

One evening I played late into the sunset, and the large metal plates that hung from my belt, interlinked by chains into long bands, caught on their surfaces the ruddy glow. And as I ceased playing, and began to shift my downward glance, a metal plate that lay aslant my knee shone with a glory more magnificent than the sun's, - a Splash of purple radiance, glinting and changing as I stirred, - the very splendour of heaven, a reﬂected light from the purple robes of the King of Kings.

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