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Updated: May 25, 2025
To the widow's threats of seeking the intervention of the law, she had retorted that they were not public singers but free citizens who performed for their own enjoyment; to the anxious mother's complaints that Dada was doing all she could to attract Marcus, she had answered promptly and to the point that her niece's good name would certainly out-weigh anything that could be said against a young man to whom so much license was allowed in Alexandria.
This discussion, which was not at all by way of a jest, amused Dada far more than the tablets, cylinders and cones covered with numbers and cabalistic signs, to which Medius tried to direct her attention. She darted off in the midst of his eager explanations to show his grandchildren how a rabbit sniffs and moves his ears when he is offered a cabbage-leaf.
The corps of de Boigne formed part of the army sent under the command of Sindhia's Mahratta generals, Lakwa Dada and Gopal Rao Bhao, to prevent if possible the junction of Ismail Beg with his Rajput allies. But the Moghul soldier of fortune was determined not to yield without a struggle.
"It is shameful!" interrupted Dada, and a shudder ran through her slight frame. "How cruel, how horrible it is! You you will stay here till the others come home and then you will go home to the old woman. I thank the gods, I have two hands and need no maid to wait upon me! But look there what is the meaning of that? That pretty litter has stopped and there is an old man signing to you."
Dada at first was reticent, but the old man's communicative humor proved infectious and she presently told her story: "I was sitting alone with the poor little boy, like well I do not know what like you must find a comparison for yourselves.
When the children, who by this time were in bed, heard the lamentations of their elders, they, too, set up a howl, and even Dada caught the infection.
In an instant the victor's chariot was surrounded by an angry mob; Dada clutched it for protection, and Marcus, without pausing to reflect indeed hardly master of his own actions turned and lifted her into it by his side; then, urging his horses forward, he forced a way through the crowd, past the caiceres.
He had not seen her for two days; his promise to Karnis that he would try to find Dada, had kept him fully occupied, and he had done his best in all earnest to discover the girl.
Mary, her son's widow, had been very cruel to her, had done her injuries she could never forgive so perhaps you are right in your notion; but all the same, my grandmother had a great liking for you and after all her wish is fulfilled, for Marcus has found you and he loves you, too, if I am not mistaken!" "If you are not mistaken!" retorted Dada. "The gods forefend!
However, there was no time now for further reflection; the steward came in and desired that he, with his son and Agne should go at once to Gorgo to practise the lament of Isis. This command did not include Herse and Dada, who remained on the barge.
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