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The Pasha salaamed without a word, his Abyssinian slaves helped him on his great white donkey, and he trotted away towards the palace, the trousers flapping about his huge legs. The Lost One stood fingering the revolver. Presently he looked up at Dicky, and, standing still, held out the pistol. "Better keep it," said Dicky; "I'll give you some peas for it to-night.
He salaamed again profoundly in response to Dacre's contemptuous words, nearly rubbing his forehead upon the ground. "His most noble excellency is pleased to be gracious," he murmured. "If he will deign to follow his miserably unworthy servant up the goat-path where none may overhear, he will speak his message and depart." "Oh, it's a message, is it?"
"I am the East!" he seemed to cry in his utter immobility. Then he turned, beckoned, and gave a sharp order to the bewildered policeman, who salaamed almost to the ground. Hugh Carden Ali bowed, to the saddle, as the great car shot smoothly forward.
"How knewest thou I was here?" Mizraim salaamed. "A watch was set upon thee this morning early. The watcher was of my slaves. He brought the word to me that thou wast here now. A watcher also was set upon thee, Excellency" he turned to David. "He also was of my slaves. Word was delivered to his Highness that thou" he turned to Nahoum again "wast in thy palace, and Achmet Pasha went thither.
Governor, general, all white tuans and mems there. Tuan Consul's carriage not nice. Shall syce buy ribbons?" "Yes," I answered, tossing him the rest of the coppers, "and get a new one for your arm." I had forgotten for the moment that it was the 31st of December. The syce touched his hand to his forehead and salaamed.
Eva had driven immediately to the hypnotist's, and he had been instructed about her coming. At his door she had knocked, and an old, evil-visaged man, in flowing robes which were marked in cabalistic signs, had opened the door. In true fakir fashion he salaamed almost to the floor while in flowery language he bade her enter. Fearfully Eva stepped within.
"The skipper wants these people to know that it is of no good to try and tackle us," thought Bob. "Yes, sir," he said aloud, "I'll take him round;" and then the lieutenant, who had been interrupted in a nap, saluted the young chief; who salaamed to him gravely, and the two young men were left alone, gazing straight at one another, each apparently trying to read the other's thoughts.
She found it difficult to speak, to explain her errand. At length she said: "You are a doctor? You can cure the sick?" Safti salaamed. "With jewels? Is that possible?" "Jewels are the only medicine," Safti replied, speaking with sudden volubility. "With the ruby I cure madness, with the white jade the disease of the hijada, and with the bloodstone haemorrhage.
In consequence when the Guru salaamed very humbly, and said that with gracious permission of beloved lady and kind master he would go and meditate in his room, and had shambled away in his red slippers, the discussion which Robert had felt himself obliged to open with his wife, on the subject of having an unknown Indian staying with them for an indefinite period, was opened in a much more amicable key than it would have been on a slice of codfish.
He salaamed awkwardly with a tortuous grin, and addressed me with the northern salutation, "May your feet never be weary with the march." Having been twenty-four hours in the saddle, my feet were not that portion of my body most wearied, but I replied to the effect that I trusted the shadow of the greasy gentleman might not diminish a hairsbreadth in the next ten thousand years.
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