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Climbing up through a particularly noisome bazaar to the bungalow, I was met with the information that it was already full. I said that was a pity, but that room must be found for my party. Room was got somehow, a dâk bungalow being an extraordinarily elastic dwelling. Hesketh was stored in a little tent.
The Sheikh-ul-Islam is considered the holiest personage in Zendjan and his appearance and demeanor does not in the least belie his reputation; whatever may be his private opinion of himself, he makes far less display of sanctimoniousness than many of the common seyuds, who usually gather their garments about them whenever they pass a Ferenghi in the bazaar, for fear their clothing should become defiled by brushing against him.
Of course it may be a mere fancy, but I cannot rid myself of the thought." "Balsamides will find out," I replied. "He can handle those fellows in the bazaar as only an Oriental can." It was not long before I heard the story of the morning's adventure from Gregorios. I found him waiting for me and very impatient.
'She SAID' Anthea was very much inclined to cry 'she said, "Get Indian things for my bazaar;" but I know she thought we couldn't, and it was only play. 'Let's get them all the same, said Robert. 'We'll go the first thing on Saturday morning. And on Saturday morning, the first thing, they went. There was no finding the Phoenix, so they sat on the beautiful wishing carpet, and said
A consciousness stood in the room between them, and their commonplaces about the picturesqueness of the bazaar rode on long absorbed regards, one reading, the other anxious to read; yet the encounter was so conventionally creditable to them both that they might have smiled past each other under any circumstances next day and acknowledged no demand for more than the smile.
The look in her husband's eyes that day had brought it back to her, and now like a flashlight it leapt from point to point of her brain, revealing, illuminating. That figure on the verandah and the unknown man of the bazaar were one. This was the beast of prey who when the time was ripe would destroy Everard Monck also.
"Was it not rather out of character for a man old enough to be grave and dignified to take such a part?" Miss Newville asked. "Perhaps so, but then we are expected to do absurd things in masquerade. Her grace the Duchess of Richmond, for instance, appeared as the Sultana of Persia, in a costume purchased in the bazaar of Bagdad. The Duchess of Grafton displayed her charms as Cleopatra.
"We have provisions for six months," said the soldiers. On the morning of the 16th fire broke out in a spirit-warehouse, and some hours afterwards in a magnificent bazaar which was filled with valuable goods. The officers blamed for it the stupidity of a drunken soldier.
Schooners from Bali come to buy Papuan slaves, while the sea-wandering Bugis arrive from distant Singapore in their lumbering praus, bringing thence the produce of the Chinamen's workshops and Kling's bazaar, as well as of the looms of Lancashire and Massachusetts.
"Tell me what's been happening I believe you've been crying! Oh, the old wretch!" "You're quite mistaken," said Julie, smiling. "Lady Henry says I may help you with the bazaar." "No!" The Duchess threw up her hands in amazement. "How have you managed that?" "By giving in. But, Evelyn, I'm not coming." "Oh, Julie!"
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