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But I restrained myself, although my cheeks burned with rage, and I more than once put my hand to my jewelled dagger. I was often visited by Osman Ali, who in vain attempted to make me speak; a harsh guttural sound was all which I would utter to express pain or pleasure. At last, being convinced that I was dumb, he exchanged me with a slave-merchant for a beautiful Circassian girl.
"You are a tantalising little devil," said James, his dull brain seeking vainly a clue to the cause of Flamby's obduracy. Flamby, meanwhile maturing her plan, made the next move. "Is the Keats picture to be more important than The Circassian?" she asked naively. "Of course," James replied, believing that at last a clue was his. "I have told you that it will be my masterpiece."
'The Circassian is, sir, I am afraid, replied the mate: 'pumping is of no avail; they could not keep her afloat till daybreak. We must therefore trust to our boats, which I believe to be all sound, and quit her before night. 'Crowded boats in such a sea as this! replied Captain Ingram, shaking his head mournfully. 'Are bad enough, I grant; but better than the sea itself.
As the stunned and stupid ploughman, who has been stretched by a thunderbolt beside his slain oxen, raises himself from the ground after the lofty crash, and looks with astonishment at the old pine-tree near him which has been stripped from head to foot, with just such amazement the Circassian got up from his downfall, and stood in the presence of Angelica, who had witnessed it.
I see but few Circassian women; what few I approach sufficiently near to observe are all more or less pleasant-faced, prepossessing females; many have blue eyes, which is very rare among their neighbors; the men average quite as handsome as the women, and they have a peculiar dare-devil expression of countenance that makes them distinguishable immediately from either Turk or Armenian; they look like men who wouldn't hesitate about undertaking any devilment they felt themselves equal to for the sake of plunder.
The clipper, though gradually settling deeper and deeper into the sea, was yet propelled before the breeze by all the canvass that it was deemed prudent to place upon her, right towards the Circassian coast, at a rate perhaps of from four to five knots.
He waved his hand with the air of a gentleman who has lost at cards, laughed, and said: "They have buried her!" The convicts laughed, the Circassian turned and asked what he was to do with the children, saying it was not his duty to feed them. Infectious diseases I did not meet with in Sahalin.
He felt how arbitrary, how cruel he had been. The Circassian went to him; he ordered her, in a voice of thunder, to be gone, me to be unbound by the other ladies, laid on the sofa, and restoratives to be procured. When I came to my senses, I found myself alone with the sultan. "Oh Zara," said he, as the tears stood in his eyes, "why did you tempt me thus why were you so obstinate?"
Nikanor shook his head doubtfully and said slowly that we really ought to have put in the shafts, not Circassian, but Peasant or Siskin; and uncertainly, as though expecting I should change my mind, took the reins in his gloves, stood up, thought a moment, and then raised his whip. "A whole series of inconsistent actions..." I thought, screening my face from the snow.
Yet the Russians are much happier with their Circassian masters than in their own country. Once a Circassian said to his Russian slave, "I am going to send you back to Russia." The man fell at his master's feet, saying, "Rather than do so, use me as your dog; beat me, tie me up, and give me your bones to pick."
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