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"You are tired, too," he said to her; "dreadfully tired. I mustn't ask for our talk." "I should like a little stroll in the moonlight." Valerie, at the open window, was looking out. "In a night or two it will be too late for us to see. We'll have our walk and our talk, Jack." She rang for her white chuddah, told the maid to put out the lamps, and that she and Mr.
But in that instant a voice spoke to her from the compound immediately below her, arresting the words on her lips, a whining, ingratiating voice. "Mem-sahib!" it said. "Mem-sahib!" She looked down and saw an old, old man, more like a monkey than a human being, standing huddled in a ragged chuddah on the edge of the path.
"Am I to go just as I am?" she asked him, carried away by his unfaltering resolution. "Yes," said Carlyon, "except for this." He loosened the chuddah from his own head and stooped to muffle it about hers. "I have provided for your going," he said. "You will see no one. You know the way. Go hard!" He moved on again. His arm was round her shoulders. "And you?" she said, with sudden misgiving.
She wore a Greek dress, made in part of cotton stuff with a gold pattern stamped on it; over this a crimson chuddah was correctly draped, with a gold belt, many beads, and an elaborate gold crown."
Valerie, on sinking into the low wicker chair, and drawing her chuddah about her shoulders, drawing it closely, although the evening was not cool had expected to find Jack, or Mrs. Wake, or Miss Bocock presently beside her. She had watched, as they wandered, all of them, into the drawing-room, the hovering, long since familiar to her, of Sir Basil.
He dragged the beard down over his face and secured the chuddah about his head. He did it all with incredible rapidity and a strength that would not be gainsaid. Then, holding Phil fast in a merciless, irresistible grasp, he spoke: "If you attempt to disobey me now, I'll kill myself with my own hands."
Pasmer's smile in her thoughts; and it disposed her to feel more keenly the quality of Miss Pasmer's smile. She found the girl standing there at a remote point of that long stretch of planking, and looking out over the water; she held with both hands across her breast the soft chuddah shawl which the wind caught and fluttered away from her waist. She was alone, said as Mrs.
She was not sorry that she was thus raised above him, for he was very dirty. The voluminous chuddah in which he was swathed looked as if it had wrapped him in those selfsame folds for many years. "But what is the sahib doing?" she asked. "Why doesn't he come?" The old man wagged a deferential beard. "Excellency, how should a poor old seller of moonstones know?" "Oh!"
"Don't give the show away for want of a little caution!" he said. "There are your men to think of, remember. This is no picnic." Derrick was still staring hard at the strange figure before him. "I say," he said at length, "what in the name of wonder are you?" He heard a faint, contemptuous laugh. The unknown drew the end of his chuddah farther across his face.
Glancing downwards, she discerned at the foot of the steps the old beggar who so persistently haunted the Residency gates, incurring thereby Lady Bassett's alarmed displeasure. He was crouching well to one side in the familiar attitude of supplication. There were dozens like him in Ghawalkhand, but she knew him by the peculiar, gibbering movement of the wiry beard that protruded from his chuddah.
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