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Angels and Women (1924)

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104 ANGELS AND WOMENburned, the army slaughtered, <strong>and</strong> myfather, his generals <strong>and</strong> priests, were tortured.Semaris, my betrothed, was slain;my mother died of a broken heart; but I wastaken to the court of Zaradis, <strong>and</strong> spared onaccount of my beauty."Accursed possession, it is leaving menow !"I should have been the queen of Zaradisbut for the arrival of a still fairer captive;in that fortune favored me. I was married tothe Deva Uronion, <strong>and</strong> soon after our union,when the counselor of Lord Satanas came tothe court of Zaradis upon an embassy,Uronion entered his service <strong>and</strong> removed toBalonia, for the queen had been strangled,<strong>and</strong> he feared from certain tokens that Zaradis’fancy for me might return. Here have Ilived, unhappy certainly, though with one ofthe most constant of the gods;1 for Uronionis encouraged by his master to continence, ashe condemns the universal license.1 See Appendix, Note 14.

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