Each time she had avoided looking in hisdirection, but Amber, who was with her, had waved and given him a saucygrin. With a convulsive heave the colt came up againon all four legs, and before he could break away, Penrod sprang lightlyon to his bare back. There was a narrow fringe of vegetationalong each bank, a few clumps of reed, scraggy palms and a singlemagnificent sycamore tree with its roots almost planted in the mud atthe edge. Saffron examined them as she walked through the town to the market.
In God's Name, you are a brave man, and an even wiser one, Osmansaid, and brought out his left hand from behind his back. He handed his horse over to one of the syces at the gate of thestableyard and strode through the barren gardens to the legationentrance of the palace. Instead he thought of sweetlittle Amber, whom he had nursed and saved from cholera. The wasted muscles in herlimbs were like whipcords as the spasms tightened them almost tosnapping point.
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