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The way he salaamed to the pronoun was enough; the swath that girl cut evidently reached from the cradle to the grave, with this monkey grinning at one end, and me doddering along at the other. I gave a moment to questioning Pete, found out all he knew, and went into the restaurant, wondering what under heaven Barbara Wallace would say to me or ask me.
Dicky picked his way through the crowd, and stood before the Sheikh-el-beled. With an Arab salute, he said: "I am, as you know, my brother, a friend of our master the Khedive, and I carry his ring on my finger." The Sheikh-el-beled salaamed as Dicky held up his hand, and a murmur ran through the crowd. "What you have done to the woman is well done, and according to your law she should die.
'E lived long enough to say to the Subadar Goordit Singh, 'I would take scorn uv me to lave widout askin' y'r pardon, Subadar. And the Subadar took 'is 'and and salaamed, and showed 'is teeth, which was meant friendly." "What else did Connor say?" asked Coolin, eagerly. "'E said 'is kit was for you that's spoilin' a good name in the condinsation of the Commissaryat, Coolin."
Sara looked down and flushed a little, because she thought her pet fancy might not be easy for strangers even nice ones to understand at first. "I TRIED not to be anything else," she answered in a low voice "even when I was coldest and hungriest I tried not to be." "Now it will not be necessary to try," said Miss Minchin, acidly, as Ram Dass salaamed her out of the room.
In half an hour the attack will begin." "Sahib is it good to wait? The dawn cometh, and with the dawn " Nehal Singh lifted his hand peremptorily. "In half an hour," he repeated. The man salaamed and was gone. Nehal Singh stood there like a pillar of stone. It was over. In half an hour!
Whatever dangers beset her she was determined to meet them with courage and patience. "Rao, you had better return to Calcutta. What I have to do must be done alone." "Very good. But I shall remain here till the Mem-sahib returns." Rao salaamed. "And if I should not return?" affected by this strange loyalty. "Then I shall seek Bruce Sahib, who has a camp twenty miles east." "Bruce?
He slid forward, salaamed to the floor-Dicky wondered how a body could open and shut so like the blade of a knife and, catching Dicky's hand, kissed it. "May thy days be watered with the dew of heaven, saadat el basha," said the Chief Eunuch. "Mine eyes have not seen since thy last withdrawal," answered Dicky blandly, in the high-flown Oriental way. "Thou hast sent for me. I am thy slave."
The butler salaamed and withdrew, leaving Jimmie and Fanny sipping their cocktails, while Virginia, still interested in the hundred and one curios scattered about the rooms, strolled around alone. "Some cocktail, eh?" grinned Jimmie, smacking his lips. "Fine!" exclaimed his fiancée, emptying her glass and putting it down on the table.
This was plain speaking, and Mary Lennox had never heard the truth about herself in her life. Native servants always salaamed and submitted to you, whatever you did. She had never thought much about her looks, but she wondered if she was as unattractive as Ben Weatherstaff and she also wondered if she looked as sour as he had looked before the robin came.
A white mass at the foot of a tree in one of the drier parts of the bog attracted his attention in the distance, and on coming near enough to see distinctly he found it was a respectably dressed elderly man sitting there motionless. As Gerrard approached, the old man rose and salaamed courteously, and disclosed himself as the scribe of the Rani Gulab Kur.
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