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The Desert-Born surveys him gravely and in civil compassion, sometimes with a muttered prayer against the hideousness of him, but on the whole with patience and equanimity, influenced by considerations of "backsheesh."
I never thought of it before, but I suppose I use it so often with Abe because he, too, seems to belong to this country." The engineer looked at her curiously. "I don't think I quite see the connection. You mean that he has Spanish blood?" "Not at all," said Barbara quickly. "But he is desert-born and desert-trained.
"Run! fly! do you hear, my children?" The question was to his attendants, apparently of the tribe. "Do you hear? They are Desert-born, like yourselves. Catch them quick!" The plunging of the animals increased. "Accursed Roman!" and the sheik shook his fist at the driver. "Did he not swear he could drive them swear it by all his brood of bastard Latin gods? Nay, hands off me off, I say!
"Backsheesh" is a certain source of comfort to all nations, and translates itself with sweetest euphony into all languages, and the desert-born tribes have justice on their side when they demand as much of it as they can get, rightfully or wrongfully.
Through all the weary march He led us. From the wild, desert-born robbers, that watched us from afar, ready to come down on us, from ambushes and hidden perils, He kept us, because we had none other help, and all our hope was in Him. The ventures of faith are ever rewarded. We cannot set our expectations from God too high. What we dare scarcely hope now we shall one day remember.
"Well, what's your opinion? Is my onagra an ass?" "No," said Daniel, rather ashamed, "it is an onagra." "All right! all right! any more dogs coming to fight my desert-born, desert-bred onagra? Come on, the onagra is ready!" But no one came forward; and the bear-leader shouted in vain in his shrill tones "Gentlemen! ladies! are you all afraid? afraid of the onagra?
But aloud he said, "I am indeed honoured; yet, friend Masouda, if harm should come of this, do not blame me." "No harm will come to you, friend Peter; and I have been so long cooped in an inn that I, who am desert-born, wish for a gallop on the mountains with a good horse beneath me and a brave knight in front.
The tall, lean, desert-born surveyor, trained in no school but the school of his work itself, with the dreams of the Seer ruling him in his every professional service; the heavy-fisted, quick-witted, aggressive Irishman, born and trained to handle that class of men that will recognize in their labor no governing force higher than the physical; the dark-faced frontiersman, whom the forces of nature, through the hard years, had fashioned for his peculiar place in this movement of the race as truly as wave and river and wind and sun had made The King's Basin Desert itself; the self-hidden financier who, behind his gray mask, wrought with the mighty force of his age Capital; and a little to one side, sitting on the ground, reclining against one of the willow posts that upheld the arrow weed shelter, dark Pablo, softly touching his guitar, representing a people still far down on the ladder of the world's upward climb, but still sharing, as all peoples would share, the work of all; and, in the midst of the group, the center of her court Barbara, true representative of a true womanhood that holds in itself the future of the race, even as the desert held in its earth womb life for the strong ones whom the slow years had fitted to realize it.
As for Lella M'Barka, the Rose of the West need not fear, for the bassour was easy as a cradle to a woman of the desert; and M'Barka, rightfully a princess of Touggourt, was desert-born and bred. Queer little patches of growing grain, or miniature orchards enlivened the dull plain round the ugly Saharian town of Djelfa, headquarters of the Ouled Naïls.
But throughout this lurid, semi-mythic record there was one recurring pleasant thought Garou never was known to harm a child. Ninette was a desert-born beauty like her Indian mother, but gray-eyed like her Normandy father, a sweet girl of sixteen, the belle of her set.
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