"
Then Quilla spoke for the first time, saying:
"Be it as you will, O Inca. I am promised in marriage to the Child of
the Sun and which child is nothing to me."
"Well said, Lady Quilla, and why should I wonder? Though I grow old they
tell me that I am still handsome, a great deal better looking than Urco,
in fact, who is a rough man and of a coarser type. You ask my wives when
you come to Cuzco; one of them told me the other day that there was no
one so handsome in the whole city, and earned a beautiful present
for her pretty speech. What is it you say, Larico? Why are you always
interfering with me? Well, perhaps you are right, and, Lady Quilla, if
you are ready, it is time to start. No, no, I thank you, Curaca, but I
will not stop for any feasting who desire to be back at my camp before
dark, since who knows what may happen to one in the dark in a strange
country?"
Then at last Huaracha grew angry.
"Be it as you will, O Inca," he said, "but know that you offer me a
threefold insult. First you refuse the feast that has been made ready
for you whereat you were to meet all the notables of my kingdom.
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