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"He ought to practise in the country whatever you do, sir," said Arthur "he ought to marry other people are going to do so and settle." "The very words that her Ladyship used yesterday, Mr. Pendennis. He ought to marry. Sam should marry, sir." "The town is full of temptations, sir," continued Pen. The old gentleman thought of that houri, Mrs. O'Leary.
I haven't even seen the unfortunate houri, because the Turk has shut her up in their cabin and pretends she's seasick. Monny doesn't believe in the seasickness, and sends secret notes in presents of flowers and boxes of chocolate. But I have seen the Turk.
On the contrary, the ladies do most of the talking, as some of us are absolutely tongue-tied. We can do nothing but sit and gaze at the young lady in our midst with all our eyes. She is a houri straight from Paradise, and we poor mortals just get a glimpse from beyond the gate, as it were. Then more arrivals keep dropping in by twos and threes, neighbouring settlers and chums of ours.
"And this means ?" she hissed in a low whisper. "That he is the real 'Arry Axes! Hush, not a word now! We join the dahabiyeh to-night. At daybreak you will meet him at the fourth angle of the pyramid, first turning from the Nile!" The crescent moon hung again over the apex of the Great Pyramid, like a silver cutting from the rosy nail of a houri.
She was a queen, and he knew that he would go through all the hells of Hind to call her his. Long ere this he would have looted the treasure chests and swept her up on his racing elephant had he dared. Sa'adi's houri! A thousand times he heard it through the night: "I am ready!" Meantime Lal Singh was hurrying on a racing camel toward the railway, toward Simla, more than a thousand miles away.
They can regard her as a Mohammedan ward or a houri or a Princess of Babylon, just as they choose. Pasquale must be right. A hundred remembered incidents go to prove it. I recollect now that Judith has rallied me on my obtuseness. The sole end of all my Aunt Jessica's manoeuvring is to marry me to Dora, and Dora, like Barkis, is willing. Marry Dora! The thought is a febrifuge, a sudorific!
Besides, he had an extra inducement to be a good man, for he had a wife of matchless beauty and loveliness: her eye could match that of any houri, and her face defy the genius of a Canova to imitate; her temper and disposition were of surpassing sweetness; in addition, she seemed as much devoted to him and his every interest as a young mother is to her first-born.
Tell me at once, and as a true man, whether this sublime lady of whom thou speakest be other than the houri with whose assistance I beheld thee sweeping the chapel at Engaddi?"
Then the favorite slave and the faithful caique-ji the one who found the little cove even on the darkest night put their heads together two very cunning and wise heads, one black and wrinkled and the other sun-tanned and yellow with the result that one night a new odalisque, a dark-skinned, black-haired houri, the exact opposite of the fair-skinned, fair-haired Yuleima, joined the coterie in the harem of the palace of the prince.
There was still nobody at the other window. Mohammed, who became more and more downcast, was beginning to fear that he would be unable to prove to me the full extent of my disgrace, when suddenly the swift approach of my houri to her window betokened something fresh.
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