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Updated: May 25, 2025
You must go to the old English maidens is that it? maidens who wear helmets on their grey hair done so" he put up his brown hands, and pretended to twist up a tiny top-knot at the back of his head "and who stroke the heads of the dragomans sitting there at their feet, what they call their 'tootsicums, and telling them thousands of lies.
He was the last man through the gate, and as he darted through the clicking of compartment doors was heard with the parting cries of the guards and the shouts of dragomans and porters.
Her headlight showed at last, an immense distance off; the economic electrics were turned up, the ghosts vanished, the dragomans of the various steamers flowed forward in beautiful garments to meet their passengers who had booked passages in the Cook boats, and the Khartoum train decanted a joyous collection of folk, all decorated with horns, hoofs, skins, hides, knives, and assegais, which they had been buying at Omdurman.
Pretty women and plain women were sitting at the little wicker tables to read letters, or discuss plans for the day with each other or their dragomans. Officers in khaki came and talked to them about golf and gymkhanas.
In the East, however, the Consular service was, at the time I write, an honoured profession, and the envoyes of the Great Powers were expected to keep up a little state, especially the English and the French. They had a certain number of Consular dragomans, or gentleman secretaries, in distinction to the travelling dragoman, who bears the same relation as a courier in Europe.
None of us talked very much, as we sat at the breakfast table: the novelty and wonder of the scene made the actors forget their words: and if we had been able to talk, we could not have appreciated each other's rhapsodies, over the shoutings of men who wanted us to buy their wares, and harangues of dragomans who wished, as Monny said, to "drag" us.
Reader, have you ever pored days and nights over the pages of Snorro? probably not, for he wrote in a language which few of the present day understand, and few would be tempted to read him tamed down by Latin dragomans.
His Egyptian attendant, the head of the Hermeneutai the guild of the Dragomans of that period was a swarthy and surly native of Memphis; whenever he accidentally came too close to the fierce-looking riders of the dromedaries he shrunk his shoulders as if he expected a blow or a push, while he poured out question and answer to the Merchant Haschim, the owner of the caravan, without timidity and with the voluble garrulity of his tribe.
Besides, we can have another dragoman, too, for ornament, if we run across a very picturesque one." I laughed. "But you can't go up the Nile on a boat with a drove of private dragomans, you know!" "I don't know, Lord Ernest. And why don't you call them dragomen? You make them sound as if they were some kind of animal." "Dragomans is the plural," I persisted. "Well, I shall call them dragomen.
One enters, and from deeps below deeps hears the voices of dragomans booming through the names and titles of the illustrious and thrice-puissant dead. Rock-cut steps go down into hot, still darkness, passages-twist and are led over blind pits which, men say, the wise builders childishly hoped would be taken for the real tombs by thieves to come.
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