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Updated: June 1, 2025
I of course knew in an instant what it was a snake, that very possibly had been attracted to the spot by the notes of my flute, and, startled by the sudden cessation of the music and Ama's quick, involuntary movement, had instantly coiled itself round her arm and struck at it in its blind and panic-stricken rage.
The excited buzz and bustle of preparation pervaded the town all day, and every day, while night again became a pandemonium of barbarous sounds for the tom-tom and flageolet concerts had been resumed with tenfold virulence since my incarceration and on one occasion a terrific uproar announced the arrival of the unhappy prisoners who had been captured, in order that the festival might lose nothing of its importance or impressiveness through lack of a sufficient tale of victims; but I could not detect any indications of an attempt on the part of any one to communicate with me; and at length the latent hope that Ama's boast of her influence with her father might be verified, and that she might succeed in inducing the king to spare me, died out, and I began to prepare myself, as best I could, to meet whatever fate might have in store for me with the fortitude befitting a Christian and an Englishman.
But my body was yielded only after love had given me love all the greater, all the purer, in that it overcame the hereditary recoil of our blood from the Mussulman. Enter RAMA, AMA'S mother Mother mine, I had not hoped to see you again. Let me take dust from your feet. Touch me not with impure hands! I am as pure as yourself. To whom have you surrendered your honour? To my husband. Husband?
Then, and not until then, did she hail me, asking whether the expected pursuers were in sight; and upon my replying in the negative, she informed me that breakfast was ready, and invited me to come down and partake of it. I felt somewhat curious to see how Ama's primitive style of cooking would turn out; but it was all right.
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