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"Not that night when you took me out of the dancing-house, not our ride to Sidi-Zerzour, not there are things I shall remember. When I am dying, after I am dead, I shall remember them." The song faded away. The torch was still, then fell downwards and became one with the fire.
"Opposite to the aumonier's dwelling was the great dancing-house of the town, and when we had bade him good-night, and turned to go back to the inn, I rather tentatively suggested to Marnier that, perhaps, it would be interesting to look in there for a moment. "'All right, he responded, with his most donnish manner. 'But I expect it will be rather an unwashed crowd.
He wasna like his father nae profane company-keeper nae swearer nae drinker nae frequenter of play-house, or music-house, or dancing-house nae Sabbath-breaker nae imposer of aiths, or bonds, or denier of liberty to the flock. He clave to the warld, and the warld's gear, a wee ower muckle, but then there was some breathing of a gale upon his spirit," etc. etc.
He was constrained to submit to the irresistible ascendency of superior will and intelligence. Lecoq was engaged in following out his course of reasoning. "The murderer, leaving the ball at the Rainbow, a dancing-house not far from here, near the fortifications, came to this wine-shop, accompanied by two women.
For me, accustomed to the gay and grotesque life deployed in an evening at the dancing-place of the Parisian students in the Closerie des lilas, it was instructive to compare this with a low English dancing-house, the Holborn Casino, which was merely sad, stiff, and repulsive.
She prayed for Androvsky without words, making of her feelings of gratitude to him a prayer, and presently, in the darkness framed by her hands, she seemed to see Liberty once more, as in the shadows of the dancing-house, standing beside a man who prayed far out in the glory of the desert. The storm, spoken of by the Diviner, did not always rage. It was stilled to hear his prayer.
Before going into this second dancing-house Domini stopped again to see from outside what it was like, but only for an instant. Then a brightness came into her eyes, an eager look. "Yes, take me in here," she said. Batouch laughed softly, and Hadj uttered a word below his breath. "Madame will see Irena here," said Batouch, pushing the watching Arabs unceremoniously away. Domini did not answer.
The robes of the Arabs brushed against the skirts of Domini and Suzanne, and eyes stared at them from every side with a scrutiny that was less impudent than seriously bold. "Madame!" Hadj's thin hand was pulling Domini's sleeve. "Well, what is it?" "This is the best dancing-house. The children dance here."
"As I spoke a handsome Arab, splendidly dressed in a pale blue robe, red gaiters and boots, and a turban of fine muslin, spangled with gold, passed us slowly, going towards the dancing-house. He cast a glance full of suspicion and malice at Marnier. "'What's up with that fellow? I said, startled. "The Arab went on, and at that moment the faithful Safti joined us.
"He led me to the door, and pointed towards the great dune beyond the dancing-house. "I saw your friend this afternoon talking there with one whom it is especially unsafe to be seen with in Beni-Koujtlar. "'With whom? "'A dancer called Àlgia. "'Talking, monsieur! Marnier knows no Arabic. "The aumônier pursed his lips in his black beard.
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