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The third week of their honeymoon was spent, however, not quite happily sadly, indeed. Dymov caught erysipelas in the hospital, was in bed for six days, and had to have his beautiful black hair cropped. Olga Ivanovna sat beside him and wept bitterly, but when he was better she put a white handkerchief on his shaven head and began to paint him as a Bedouin. And they were both in good spirits.
It has always been a difficult matter to keep these unruly elements at peace with each other and with the citizens, nor could the Sherif hope to effect it were he not himself of Bedouin and noble blood. The early history of the Sherifate is exceedingly obscure.
The Emir gave a deprecating glance of anguish, and then, bending his head, pressed his lips to the Bedouin robes which she wore. ''Tis the most unfortunate of coincidences, but believe me, dearest of friends, 'tis only a coincidence. I am here merely by accident; I was hunting, I was
A hundred yards behind us, his bright-brown body sharply outlined against the pale, amber-colored sky, stood a little Bedouin smiling down upon us. It was a perfect personification of Eastern life, and I made a sketch, while the Lieutenant told Mary of his hard campaign southward, and his joy at catching the first glimpse of Teschoun from the distance.
I will not enter Baghdad till the morning, that the townsfolk may see my merchandise and know me. 'Do as thou wilt, said the muleteer; 'I have given thee good counsel, and thou must judge for thyself. Then Alaeddin bade them unload the mules and pitch the tent; so they did his bidding and abode there till the middle of the night, when the youth went out to do an occasion and seeing something gleaming afar off, said to Kemaleddin, 'O captain, what is yonder glittering? The muleteer sat up and considering it straitly, knew it for the glint of spear-heads and Bedouin swords and harness.
The rest crept between the horses or under their bellies into the rear, and there prepared to sally out again as soon as the enemy retired, The Christian knights sat like a wall of steel upon their horses, their lances were levelled, and, brave as the Bedouin horsemen were, they felt to break this massive line was impossible.
Outwardly they were just ordinary Bedouin tents, the tan and brown of camel-hide; flat-roofed and square, giving a full-grown man room in which to move and stand to his full stature without the fear as in the peaked affair called bell of bringing the whole thing down upon his crown.
Anxiety grew, and he was questioned. If he had got a Bedouin, what would he have done with him shot him? He smiled a smile of grim contempt and shook his head. Would he have stabbed him? Another shake. Would he have quartered him flayed him? More shakes. Oh! horror what would he have done? "Eat him!" Such was the awful sentence that thundered from his lips.
"No; you are forgetting that we are living in an oasis, where letters are not delivered, and where we bring news of ourselves, and where no news is understood to mean that the spring we were hastening towards was dry, or that a sand-storm " "Sand-storms are rare at this season of the year." "An old bedouin like Tahar is safe enough.
The fireplace of flat stones is in the centre, and the smoke oozes out through the roof and sides. The Bedouin men, in flowing burnous and keffiyeh, with the 'agâl of dark twisted camel's hair like a crown upon their heads, are almost all handsome: clean-cut, haughty faces, bold in youth and dignified in old age. The women look weatherbeaten and withered beside them.
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