A Canopy of Rose Leaves
“Whenever she could without attracting unnecessary attention to herself, she stopped walking and pretended to watch the antics of the animals all round her instead. The goats, as agile as all their kind, frolicked about her, not really mixing with the sheep but always travelling in the same direction. At first she had resented the fact that it was the men who lounged at their ease on horseback and the women who walked, but as the hours went by she no longer cared about anything but the state of ...her own feet. By noon the rather unsuitable shoes she had with her had blistered her heels, by four in the afternoon she began to doubt her ability to take another step, by five, when the Khan finally called a halt, she hoped for nothing more than an early death.The other women laughed at her. They found her dress ridiculous and shoes even more so, but they admired the courage with which she laughed back at them, and they were scrupulous in always addressing her as knome, which as an address has the added convenience of applying to married and unmarried ladies alike.MoreLess
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