Moreover, I have noticed that they seldom learn wisdom, and that what
they have done before, they are ready to do again, who believe anything
that soft lips swear to them. Yes, even that they are loved for
themselves alone, as I own to my sorrow, once I did myself. Urco could
not have taken that fair wife of mine, Father, if she had not been
willing to go when she saw that I had lost your favour and with it the
hope of the Scarlet Fringe."
Here Kari looked at me, of whom I knew he was thinking all this time,
and seeing that I could overhear his talk, began to speak of something
else.
On the appointed day there was a great gathering of the nobles of
the land, especially of those of the Inca blood, and of all that were
"earmen," a class of the same rank as our peers in England, to hear
the proclamation of Kari as the Inca's heir. It was made before this
gorgeous company in the Great Temple of the Sun, which now I saw for the
first time.
It was a huge and most wondrous place well named the "House of Gold."
For here everything was gold.
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