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In Hindostan, theft is often enquired into by causing the suspected party to chew some dry rice or rice flour, which has some very strong curses stirred into it, corsned fashion. After chewing, the accused spits out his mouthful, and if it is either dry or bloody, he is guilty.
The agent was a middle-aged man, and was a close observer of those with whom he came in contact, and somehow or other he felt a strange interest in this young man for which he could not account; and meeting him so frequently, he determined to speak to him. The young man regarded him with visible surprise, when he enquired if he would not like to purchase a book.
Yet with her joy, Arethusa puzzled for a moment over some of the obscurer items of her mother's speech. "Why doesn't she have her party at home instead of a hotel," she enquired, "and what is Emily coming out of?" "Your mother used the wrong words, Arethusa," volunteered Ross from the davenport; "she means to say that Mrs.
"Now that's right," said he; "'Where there is a will there is a way, you Americans say." Reaching into his vest pocket he pulled out a bottle which was hermetically sealed. "There, there, lies your salvation," said he, tapping the bottle. "How so?" enquired Ensal. "This thing came to me like a revelation," said the man.
"Show it me," cried I: but she would not. As soon as she was sure that she saw me, she ran to me and throwing her arms about my neck, enquired of the daughter of my uncle. I replied, "Sooth to say she is dead, and we have caused Zikr- litanies and recitations of the Koran to be performed for her; and it is now four nights and this be the fifth since she is gone."
"But this is his business. Tell him I have a message for him, will you?" "Just as yuh say, bo'," returned the other cautiously. "What's it goin' to be? Bucket of grape or a tub of suds?" "Do I look like the foolish waters?" enquired P. Sybarite with mild resentment. "Back me up a shell of lather."
"I'm not good at guessing," Brinnaria parried; "better tell me." "I've b-b-been to the Palace," Flexinna revealed. "What took you there?" Brinnaria queried, surprised. "I was sent for," Flexinna declared, elated. "Who'd you see?" Brinnaria enquired. "The Emperor himself," proclaimed Flexinna triumphantly. Brinnaria was very much astonished. "Better tell me the whole story," she suggested.
Persons who met Burton and his friends enquired Irish-like if they were the party who had been put to death by the Amir of Harar. Everyone, indeed, was amazed to see them not only alive, but uninjured, and the Frank's temerity became the talk of the desert.
I came unscathed from close companionship with the goats and rams, and the dogs behaved as if they had been my pets from their puppyhood. "Can you do as well with horses?" the Villicus enquired. "I believe so," I replied; "give me a chance." "I shall," he asserted. "I'll round up all our colts fit for breaking and try you on them. I'll get in most of the boys to watch the fun.
The letter sent to him with the account of your father's death was answered by a son of his; who stated that his father had died, two months before, and enquired if any news had been obtained of an infant who, they had learned, had been born some months before the murder of its parents.
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