[When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookWhen the World Shook CHAPTER XVI 16/30
He says 'Great and Ancient Monarch of the divine blood, Heaven-born One, your strait, and that of those who remain to you, is sore.
Yet on behalf of the Nations I am sent to offer terms of peace, but this I may only do in the presence of your child who is your heiress and the Queen-to-be of the Sons of Wisdom.'" Here, in the picture, Oro waved his hand and from behind the marble shell appeared Yva herself, gloriously apparelled, wearing royal ornaments and with her train held by waiting ladies.
She bowed to the Prince and his company and they bowed back to her.
More, we saw a glance of recognition pass between her and the Prince. Now the real Yva by our side pointed to the shadow Yva of the vision or the picture, whichever it might be called, a strange thing to see her do, and went on: "The daughter of the Lord Oro comes.
The Prince of the Nations salutes her.
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