1st UK edition

'Are you the Khania's other friend?'

'Ayesha, dost thou mean that thou art such a woman?'

'See there!' he said, pointing to something dim and enormous

'Ride fast, ride fast for safety, strangers'

It rose, it stood up, a human figure

She grew white and silent as the corpse upon the bier behind her

In a second, the attempt had been made and failed

'Drive them out on to the mountain'

I saw Leo rolling over and over at grips with a great snow-leopard

I seemed to see two glorious shapes sweeping upward on its bosom

'See, yonder is the mouth of the gorge where lived the cat-worshipping sorcerer'

It was the CRUX ANSATA, the symbol of Life itself

He was hacking at the cord with it fiercely

As he passed, he turned his face... it was that of a madman

He threw one arm round her slender form, while with the other he supported me

Hurled it feet foremost into the fiery lake below

Alone in the shadow of the pylon

From the east a single ray of upward-springing light

Holding him thus, she began to spak in clear and silvery tones

In that darkened room she shimmered from head to foot like the water of a phosphorescent sea

Ayesha tore off her veil and held it on high

'What seeks my vassal, the Khania of Kaloon?'

We dragged the animals down the snow slopes to the cave

With a murmered cry of 'Husband!' Ayesha cast her arms about her lover's neck

Slaves took the leading ponies by the bridle

'We go to accomplish our fate'

She bent over him and touched him with her lips upon the brow

'What have you to say, Horace?' asked Leo

'By this poor earthly symbol, I create tee King of Earth'

At one point she paused and I looked downwards

She took a map, and, placing her finger upon Pekin, said: 'There is the place that shall be our home'

'Who is it? Who is it?' he exclaimed, blinking at me through a pair of horn spectacles