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Jaffir seemed unaware of anything, and went on staring at the beam. "Can you hear me, O Jaffir?" asked Lingard. "I hear." "I never had the ring. Who could bring it to me?" "We gave it to the white woman may Jehannum be her lot!" "No! It shall be my lot," said Lingard with despairing force, while Wasub raised both his hands in dismay.
No man dieth except by permission of Allah, according to what is written on the scrolls of the angel, Al Sijil. "I go with you, Master, where you go, were it to Jehannum! I swear that by the rising of the stars, which is a mighty oath. Tawakk
'Then, croaked the Mullah, 'thou wilt take out the young men and strike at the four villages within the Border? 'Or wring thy neck, black raven of Jehannum, for a bearer of ill- tidings.
Ditta Mull has one daughter now, but he says he will have a son soon. And he says, "At the end of five years, by this new bundobust, I must go. If I do not go, I must get fresh seals and takkus-stamps on the papers, perhaps in the middle of the harvest, and to go to the law-courts once is wisdom, but to go twice is Jehannum." 'That is quite true, explained Tods gravely. 'All my friends say so.
"Robber of the Haram, from Jehannum is thy body!" Night passed with no alarm, quietly save for the yelping and quarreling of the jackals and hyenas at work beyond the dunes. Early morning found the Legionaries again at work; and so for five days they toiled. The Legion was composed of picked men, skilled in science and deep in technical wisdom.
The whole experience of the past days had been a Jehannum of incomprehensible terrors. Now that the climax was at hand, strength nearly deserted him even to stand. But the proud Arab blood in him flared up again as he was thrust forward, confronting Bara Miyan.
The crash of bursting boxes, the sharp report of rending ropes, the warning cry, the maddening cheer; a battle of men, another of beasts and when the collision had passed, the earth was strewn with its wreck. "They are Wahabbas, O Hadji," said the Shaykh. "Thou seest the tufts on their spears. Under them they carry Jehannum." "And these now coming?" asked the Prince.
At thought of the death-angel standing nigh, his heart quaked; but rage and hate inspired him, and he muttered: "Fire to your bellies, broiling in white flame! Fuel of Jehannum, may Eblis be your bed, an unhappy couch! "To work, men!" cried the Master. "There is great work to do!"
Our afternoon was hot and unpleasant: about later March the Hawa el'-Uwwah, a violent sand-raising norther, sets in and lasts through a fortnight. After that the summer Jehannum! From the raised and metalled bank, upon which the Burj stands, we descended to the broad mouth of the Wijh valley, draining the low rolling blue-brown line of porphyritic hillocks on the east.
Bring your goods quickly, and I shall receive them in payment of what you owe me from last year. And he laughed, and struck me on the shoulder with his open hand. May Jehannum be his lot!" "We will fight him," said young Bahassoen, crisply. "We shall fight if there is help and a leader. Tuan Abdulla, will you come among us?" Abdulla did not answer at once.
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