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Updated: May 24, 2025
The stranger may not praise the Circassian's wife or child for fear of shedding over them the malign influence of the evil eye, or for other reasons less fanciful; but to the praises of his steed the warrior's ear is ever open.
A second one taking a rare bracelet of pearls off her own fair arms, placed it upon the Circassian's, and sealed it there with a kiss!
She stopped and looked earnestly in his face, then, springing back, and standing before him with clenched hands, she screamed "Ha, haa! it is you, Dobri! why did you not come to help us? traitor coward to leave us at such a time! Did you not hear the shrieks of Marika when they dragged her from your cottage? Did you not see the form of little Dobri quivering on the point of the Circassian's spear?
"'Dat guy was tryin' to get nex' to me wife, de Circassian Beaut', answers the Stone Breaker. 'He spouts bum poetry about her, an' I won't stand fer it, see? Leave me go an' I'll crack his nut as easy as I would a pavin' stone. Merritt had lots of fight left in him and tried to break loose, but the Circassian's remarks wilted him and I never knew him to use poetry again.
How the devil can a fellow with a mustache not stronger that a Circassian's eyebrow read such a lecture to me?" "Just for the very reason you've mentioned. You glide into an attachment at my time of life; you fall in love at yours." "Yes," said Power, musingly, "there is some truth in that. This flirting is sad work.
They wore hats, according to European fashion, instead of the Polish "czapka," or the "mycka," which is similar to that of the Circassian's.
The fact was that the Circassian's sentence was more than usually peremptory and sudden, and he was taken at once from the place of confinement and borne away in the boat without his person being searched, or indeed any of the usual precautions in such cases being adopted to prevent accident or the escape of the prisoner.
He is dead-time flies quickly on, and he will soon be forgotten." "Never!" replied the slave, with startling energy. "You will find that a Circassian's heart is not so easily moulded in a Turkish shape!" The monarch bit his lip at the sarcasm of the remark, and as it, was expressed with no lack of bitterness, it could not but cut him keenly.
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