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But, monsieur, what might happen in the streets of the old town should a Frank go there at night, I am afraid to say." "Still, you promised." "Ay, and will keep my word, if the monsieur agrees to the condition." "Let me hear it!" "I will procure a burnoose, you shall put the robe on, and be an Arab for to-night." John draws a breath of relief, he smiles. "Willingly, Mustapha.
Even the outer garb in the Oriental deserts has much resemblance to our parkee; both burnoose and parkee are primarily windbreaks, and it makes little difference whether the wind be charged with snow or sand. At midday on the 3d of February we left the Alatna River and took our way across country for the Kobuk.
He can wear our burnoose and haik; they will be enough. It is quite right that he should have brought a servant from his own country. What say you, Ben Eddin?"
He kept a thing over his head all the time, as if he didn't want too much to be seen. 'What sort of a thing? 'Why, one of them cloak sort of things, like them Arab blokes used to wear what used to be at Earl's Court Exhibition, you know! This piece of information seemed to interest my companions more than anything he had said before. 'A burnoose do you mean?
It was long after darkness had fallen, that Tarzan led his companions from their hiding place in the tree to the ground and around the palisade to the far side of the village. Gathering the skirts of his burnoose, beneath one arm, that his legs might have free action, the ape-man took a short running start, and scrambled to the top of the barrier.
That was all that was said. Hadji Daoud lifted his cup and drained it, sucking politely at the dregs. The cadi coughed. The cadi raised his eyes to the awning and appeared to listen. Then he observed, "To-night, in-cha-'llah, it will rain." The notary pulled his burnoose over his shoulders, groped down with his toes for his slippers, and got to his feet. "Rest in well-being!" he said.
Again she called him by name, and at the same instant the ape, fretting under the restraints of the unaccustomed garments of the Tarmangani, tore the burnoose from him, revealing to the eyes of the horror-struck woman the hideous face and hairy form of a giant anthropoid.
Again he slipped his hand into his burnoose, again he produced a slip of paper, again he laid it on the shelf, again I glanced at it, again nothing was written on it but a name, 'Paul Lessingham. 'Well? I see, Paul Lessingham. What then? 'She is good, he is bad, is it not so? He touched first one scrap of paper, then the other. I stared. 'Pray how do you happen to know?
He was a hospitable soul who met me once entering the landward gate in a travel-stained burnoose and insisted on dragging me into his gorgeously-carpeted house to drink aquardiente and look at his "curios." These consisted chiefly of modern firearms, some of first-class London make, which hung on his walls as ornaments, having been bought haphazard without ammunition or sporting intent.
She came with alacrity, and when she knew the object of the count's visit she sent me to get a great white burnoose, enveloped me in it, and putting my hand into the count's said to me: "You have but to show yourself to secure the carriage." But the count promised to bring me back himself. Oh, how glad my dear Madelaine was to see me! With what joy she kissed me!
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