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When the head was off, and the blood was spouting on the ground, a married woman, who had no children, came forward very eagerly out of the crowd, to smear herself with it, the application of criminals' blood being considered a very favourable medicine for women afflicted with barrenness, so she indulged in this remedy. But one of the Arnaoots standing near said, "What, you like blood, do you?"
So, for the matter of three-halfpence, he killed the shopkeeper; and had his own rascally head chopped off, universally regretted by his friends. Why, I wonder, does not His Highness the Pasha invite the Arnaoots to a dejeuner at the Citadel, as he did the Mamelukes, and serve them up the same sort of breakfast?
The walls are considerably heightened since Emin Bey and his horse leapt them, and it is probable that not one of them would escape. This sort of pistol practice is common enough here, it would appear; and not among the Arnaoots merely, but the higher orders. I have heard he was a Cambridge man, and had learned both algebra and politeness under the Reverend Doctor Whizzle, of College.
Seeing one man hanged is quite enough in the course of a life. J'y ai ete, as the Frenchman said of hunting. These Arnaoots are the terror of the town. They seized hold of an Englishman the other day, and were very nearly pistolling him. Last week one of them murdered a shopkeeper at Boulak, who refused to sell him a water-melon at a price which he, the soldier, fixed upon it.
Beyond the Jack-pudding rascal and his audience, there was on the green a spot, on which was pointed out to me a mark, as of blood. That morning the blood had spouted from the neck of an Arnaoot soldier, who had been executed for murder. These Arnaoots are the curse and terror of the citizens.
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