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Gorgo might be proud of such a lover; and if now, he were to go to her and tell her, probably with some annoyance, how provokingly he had been delayed by that pert little singing-girl, it would be all her own fault. She felt as though there were something in her which forced her to seem much worse than she really was, and wished to be.
"You complain of the lot of a singing-girl, and the cruel prejudices of the world and what are you saying? Let me have my way, you would say, or I scorn your morality?" "Scorn!" exclaimed Dada firing up. "Do you say I scorn morality? No, indeed no.
Then they said to Ali ben Bekkar, 'And who art thou and what is thy condition? And he answered, 'I am of the common people. So they carried us to their abode, and we hurried on with them for fear; but when they had us with them in the house, they looked at me and seeing the clothes I wore and my necklaces and jewellery, believed me not and said to me, 'No singing-girl ever had such jewels as these; tell us the truth of thy case. I returned them no answer, saying in myself, 'Now will they kill me for my clothes and ornaments; and I spoke not a word.
"Venerable lady," a singing-girl put in, "you don't like the stories we tell; but may we thrum a song for you?" "You two," remarked old lady Chia, "had better play a duet of the 'Chiang Chuen ling' song: 'the general's command." Hearing her wishes, the two girls promptly tuned their cords, to suit the pitch of the song, and struck up on their guitars.
Lady, I would do you no harm, for I offer you half my throne. You and you alone shall be my Queen. Speak now." "King Janees," answered Tua, "what evil spirit has entered into you that you should wish to make a Queen of a singing-girl, the daughter of a merchant who has wandered to your city? Let me go, and keep that high place for one of the great ones of the earth.
So they took us and carried us along, without our resisting, to their abode; and we hurried on with them for excess of fear; but when they had us set down with them in the house, they looked hard at me and seeing the clothes I wore and my necklaces and jewellery, believed not my account of myself and said to me, 'Of a truth these necklaces belong to no singing-girl; so be soothfast and tell us the truth of thy case.
That little singing-girl whom we saw to-night, quite a pretty child, didn't you think? She seemed quite smitten. Then there are others, one may suppose. Yes, certainly, a very nice young man." "Mother!" "Well, what? Young men will be young men. Only a theosophist could imagine that they would be young girls. I make every allowance from him as doubtless he does for others.
The young maids were keen to hear lady Feng's jokes. As soon as it came to lady Feng, the young maids purposely gave a cough. The singing-girl at once stopped short. "Now we've caught her!" shouted the party laughingly; "drink your wine, be quick! And mind you tell something nice! But don't make us laugh so heartily as to get stomachaches." Lady Feng was lost in thought.
So he ate his dinner with Mr. Wayman and his wife, and found himself asking all manner of questions about the singing-girl in the course of his hospitable entertainment. He asked if the girl was going to sing at the tavern to-night. "No," answered the landlord; "this is Friday. She only sings at my place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays."
So the young couple moved to Cyrenaica, and Dada was happy in learning to govern her husband's large estates with prudence and good sense. The gay singing-girl became a capable housewife, and the idle horse-loving Marcus a diligent farmer.
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