Midwinter Town: A Novella
said Sir Geswer, wishing to conceal a slight confusion.
“Oh, as God lives! If what I think should come true!” cried Basira, blushing with delight.
And she stood at once in position with a light Postar saber in her right hand; the left she put behind her, and with breast pushed forward, with raised head and dilated nostrils, she was so pretty and so rosy that Zastar whispered to Sir Geswer's sister, “No decanter, even if filled with Hurgian a hundred years old, would delight me so much with the sight of it.”