Þā wǣgan on þām bēode ne sind leng geþēod, ān healf healdende heft granatæpples sǣda, tōclofenra and tōsprǣddra, sēo ōþer bær forlǣten. Se stōl behindan þǣre bence sitt īdel, wērig leþersetl, his wǣtme ādimmod for þām þe nān mann ne cymþ tō his biddenne. Þæt gerīm stent open, þā clǣnan stæfa unhrinene, ǣlc rīm bīdende handa þe yld oþþe mid ealle ætfēole is. Þes cleofa emnetes is still būtan þām hnescan drīfe dūstes ofer lāmbolle þe hwīlum wæs gebrocen tō gemengenne eorþan and blēo, þā lāfas nū drȳge swā eald nīwpæper.
Hwīlum, on landum Deccan and Malwa, cōmon cēapmenn mid pūsum cinnabares and mid earmfullum sandalwuda, and restodon under cōlum wahriftum þæs bazaar. Hīe grundon ǣrenu on dūst, and gemengdon hīe on weax tō inseglum gecwida and on smierwe tō mearcienne durustafas on frēolstīdum. On morgenne, þonne monsunwindas þurh swēopon, þiccode sēo lyft and þā tūnwegas deorcodon mid lāmigum stricum, heora līnan hweorfende swā þā ungesettan spell ǣlces ætfēoles gewitan. Dōmbōceras oncnēowon mægen inseglstāna, behāt unhrinenes āþes, ac þonne se ealdor āweg wæs farende on langum, ungewissum ælþēodfæreld, þonne wæs þæt weax ungeþrȳcced forlǣten, and þā ærendgewritu bīddon dōmes þe ne cōme.
Under þissum wolcnigum heofonum glitendon hrōf þāra hūsa, mid terracotta getigelode, mid æfenes rēne. Þā tūnesmenn brōhton windla wæstmes of tamarindtrēowum inn, heora þicce rind gemearcod of þǣre nihtes storme. On cycene wylde cōccrocc ofer slāwum fȳre, his īsenrīm gemearcod mid gēarum brūces, innan briwende þone scearpan smæcc linsǣda and flǣsc wyrttruma þe of brocenum felde wǣron ūp genumene. Se heorþ gemyndgode þā ætfēolan þæt riht nis nā bebodu āna, ac dæghwāmlic nēodþearf: tōdǣl þæs endemestan cornes, gemynd hwelce handa sāwon and hwelce handa hēowon.
On cōlre sceade hang sari of ealdum cotoune of clāþlīnan, gebroden mid hīwum feorra burga, dīamantas and blēdum þe on tīdum friþes wǣron gesīwede. Þæs hrægles ecg bær gāst ochre blēoes, gefylged mid carfullre handa on hærfeste lange āgangen. Hēr, under swylcum hræglum, sægdon ealdras spell forlorenra eardunga: þāra þe ūt wandrodon ǣr dōm mihte bēon geclypod, croccscerda ūp ādelfedra þe nǣnige race næfdon tō secganne būtan ābrocenum cēape. On stilnesse heold sēo lyft stenc tigeldūstes, wǣtne and scearpne æfter rēne, gemynd þinga ungesettra forlǣtenra.
Tōdæg mæg hwā lāmbolle ūt bringan and hīe mid wætere fyllan, and lætan hīe on þerscolde settan swā tācen lāþunge. Man mæg ærendgewrit mid weaxe insegliān, ēac gif nān hræd andswaru nis, āna tō weorþienne þā styrenesse dōmes. Briw wyrttruman slāwe, mid ealdum crocce, swā þū þā þe ne magon hām cuman fēdde. Oþþe hōh gewefenne clāþ ūte, tō fōnne þone wind, and lǣt ǣnige bodunge drīfan þider þe hēo þearf.
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