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By this time the intermittent sound of music had grown insistent and continuous. Solemn bodies of priests approached, series after series of the shaven, white-robed ministers of Amen. The murmur had grown to an uproar. The wild clamor of trumpet, pipe, cymbal and sistrum, with the long drone of the arghool as undertone, drifted by.
As she arranged her skirt and settled herself, from an earthen drum just outside the house and an arghool there came a crude sound of native music, to which almost immediately added itself a high and quavering voice, singing: "Doos ya' lellee! Doos ya' lellee!" At the same moment Aïyoub came into the room, without noise, and handed to Baroudi, who was sitting opposite to Mrs.
She sat quite still, for a moment unseen, unthought of; she listened to the quavering voice, to the beaten drum and arghool, she smelt the incense, and she felt like one at a doorway peering in at an unknown world. Almost immediately Aïyoub came back, and they began the meal, which was perpetually accompanied by the music.
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