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And for the next few minutes not even the owner of the beautiful Kirman could find any fault with the quantity or the quality of the attention bestowed on his new possession. But Billy, under cover of the chatter, said reproachfully in his ear: "Oh, Cyril, to think you can play like that and won't on demand!" "I can't on demand," shrugged Cyril again.
The sheer grotesqueness of her home struck her painfully for the first time, as she was helped to an ancient chair that stood before the suspended Kirman rug her throne John had always called it. As she once more occupied it, there came a curious revulsion against her gorgeously shabby domain. Other women, she reflected, had neat places, cool expanses of wallpaper, furniture seemly set apart.
These internal agitations, however, coinciding as they have done with outbursts of sectarian fanaticism from without, accompanied by isolated cases of fresh persecution in Kirmán and elsewhere, have failed to exasperate and exhaust the heroic patience of the steadfast lovers of the Cause.
In drawing-rooms light and soft colors are usually in better harmony than dark ones, and a wide and beautiful choice can be made among Kermanshah, Kirman, Khorasan, Tabriz, Chinese, Oman rugs, and many others.
From Ormuz, Marco Polo, going up again towards the north-east, visited Kirman; then he ventured by dangerous roads across a sandy desert, where there was only brackish water to be found, the desert across which, 1500 years before, Alexander had led his army to meet Nearchus. Seven days afterwards he entered the town of Khabis.
The east comprised Khorassan, Seistan, and Kirman; the north, Armenia, Azer-bijan, Ghilan, Koum, and Isfahan; the south, Fars and Ahwaz; the west, Irak, or Babylonia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia. It was not the intention of the monarch, however, to put a blind trust in his instruments.
Armenia Minor Armenia Mount Ararat Georgia Mosul, Baghdad, Bussorah, Tauris Persia The Province of Kirman Comadi Ormuz The Old Man of the Mountain Cheburgan Balkh Cashmir Kashgar Samarcand Kotan The Desert Tangun Kara-Korum Signan-fu The Great Wall Chang-tou The residence of Kublaï-Khan Cambaluc, now Pekin The Emperor's fêtes His hunting Description of Pekin Chinese Mint and bank-notes The system of posts in the Empire.
On leaving Kirman Marco Polo and his two companions set out on a nine days' journey across a rich and populous country to the town of Comadi, which is supposed to be the Memaun of the present day, and was even then sinking into decay.
Sooner or later one jumps upon your back and rides you like the Old Man of the Sea." Cleigh heard the rumble of steam. "Objects of art!" went on Cunningham. "It eats into your vitals to hear that some rival has picked up a Correggio or an ancient Kirman or a bit of Persian plaque. You talk of halters. Lord lumme, how obliquely you look at facts!
"Maybe I ought to have waited and let you rest an hour or two." "But 'twould have been too dark, then, to see the rug," objected Marie. "It's a genuine Persian a Kirman, you know; and I'm so proud of it," she added, turning to the others. "I wanted you to see the colors by daylight. Cyril likes it better, anyhow, in the daytime."
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