The King's Talisman — page 103: what you’re looking at

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94 Db eaAs THE KINGS TALISMAN. she raised her eyes, beaming with love and pride, to the face of her companion. ‘‘ But tell me,” she continued, as she gazed more intently upon the features of the young man, ‘<where is it I have seen you before? Did you ever visit my father’s house?” ‘‘ Never,” returned Noureddin, somewhat surprised at the question. ‘‘] have seen your father in the street, but he knows not me. Some countenance resembling mine must be in your memory.” ‘No, that cannot be. A countenance like yours would never pass from my mind.” ‘«“And yet you cannot even now identify it, nor call to. mind where or when you have seen its like,” returned Nou- reddin, with asmile. «True, true,” murmured Selina, half to herself. ‘“* But yet itis connected with a thousand associations in my mind: and even as far back as childhood the chain seems to run though I[ cannot call to mind one link of that chain.” “‘It must be some one else besides me,” Noureddin said, ‘for one in my humble station could not have been iden- tified with such associations.” ‘“No; the picture is too vivid, too absorbing in its very uncertain strangeness, to admit of such a construction. [ cannot solve the mystery, though Ihave tried to do it from the moment I first saw you; but of one thing I am certain— your form and features alone are at the bottom of it.” As the maiden spoke, she turned toward Miriam, who rode at a respectful distance behind, and beckoned her for- ward. ‘* Miriam,” she said, in an undertone, “‘is not our young leader’s countenance familiarto you? Had you not seen it somewhere before we met him here?” A quick beam of intelligence shot across the attendant’s face, and bending her lips close to the ear of her mistress, she whispered a hurried sentence. Selina started as the words Gomicbooks com