16/21 "It is better to talk when we can see each other face to face. I have no belief in the foolish talk of the people; but you are right--we must bring it to my fathers knowledge." "I heard the wildest gossip in the City of the Dead," said Rameri. She received your present, and they have a house of their own again. Close to the one that was burnt down, there was a tumbled-down hovel, which her father soon put together again; he is a bearded soldier, who is as much like her as a hedgehog is like a white dove. |