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"A Hajji is one of a class, Sir George Templemore," Eve at length said, "to which you and I have both the honour of belonging." "No, not Sir George Templemore," interrupted Grace, with a precipitation that she instantly regretted; "he is not an American." "Then I, alone, of all present, have that honour.
Summerfield, how do you like the last Hajji Miss Eve Effingham? To my notion, she is prettyish, though by no means as well as her cousin, Miss Van Cortlandt, who is really rather good- looking."
'But, when the singing and dancing is done, said Mahbub Ali, 'comes the Colonel Sahib's, and that is not so sweet. 'A fair land a most beautiful land is this of Hind and the land of the Five Rivers is fairer than all, Kim half chanted. 'Into it I will go again if Mahbub Ali or the Colonel lift hand or foot against me. Once gone, who shall find me? Look, Hajji, is yonder the city of Simla?
Hajji Baba, the barber's son, entered his native place as Mirza Hajji Baba, the Shah's deputy, with all the parade of a man of consequence, and on a mission that gave him unbounded opportunity of enriching himself. I found myself, after all my misfortunes, at the summit of what, in my Persian eyes, was perfect human bliss. The Way of the World
It was a little, little arrangement, Sahib, of which is it necessary to tell all the world?" "And when didst thou know who the Hajji was?" said Strickland. "Not for a certainty till he and our Sahib had returned from their visit to the Sheshaheli country. It is quite true as our Sahib says, the man-eaters lay, flat around his feet, and asked for spades to cultivate cotton.
They rolled off: they rose up, one behind the other the length of the street, and the fear on their faces was as leaves whitening to a breeze. The Hajji stood in the gate guarding his skirts from defilement. The Hajji said: 'I am here once again. Give me six and yoke up. They zealously then pushed to us with poles six, and yoked them with a heavy tree.
The chief of these are The Adventures of Hajji Baba , and Hajji Baba in England , Zohrab the Hostage , Ayesha , and The Mirza . All these works are full of brilliant description, character-painting, and delicate satire. Was ed. at Oxf. He wrote Lives of Gibbon , and Macaulay ; but his best work was his Life of St. Bernard . The Service of Man is written from a Positivist point of view.
So popular was the work that Morier wrote an amusing sequel to it entitled "Hajji Baba in England." He died on March 23, 1849. I. The Turcomans My father, Kerbelai Hassan, was one of the most celebrated barbers of Ispahan.
"Yes, yes, my fair lady; it will not be long before your Parisian and Roman tastes will be ready to pronounce the whole country a villeggiatura!" "This is the penalty, Eve, one pays for being a Hajji," observed Grace, who had been closely watching the expression of the others' countenances; for, agreeably to her view of things, the Wigwam wanted nothing to render it a perfect abode.
By this means I obtained a sum amounting to four thousand pieces of gold; and, taking with us only a few camels laden with water-skins to hold the magic water, and two slaves bought by the Hajji, we set out on our journey.
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