Ayesha awaits you, not me, and I am weary of life.

I wish to die and have done with it." Thus I gasped, not all at once, but in broken words, as I hobbled along clinging to Leo's arm.

But he only answered in a low voice--"Be quiet, or they will hear you," and on he went, dragging me with him.
We were quite near the water now, for we could see it gleaming below us, and oh! how I longed for one deep drink.

I remember that this was the uppermost desire in my mind, to drink and drink.

But the hounds were nearer still to us, so near that we could hear the pattering of their feet on the dry ground mingled with the thud of the hoofs of the Khan's galloping horse.