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"But Hamza do much business in Luxor; I dunno if him come to the Fayyūm." He glanced deprecatingly at Mrs. Armine. "I very glad to come, but about Hamza I dunno." He spoke with such apparent sincerity that she was almost deceived, and thought that perhaps some difficulty had really arisen. "Offer him his own terms," exclaimed Nigel, "and I'll bet he'll be glad to come."
She must centre them upon Nigel, must centre them in the Fayyūm, in the making of crops to grow where only sand had been, both in the Fayyūm and in another place, or she must centre them She smelt the heavy perfume; she smoothed the silken pillows with her long fingers; she stretched her body on the soft divan; she listened to the liquid whisper of the faskeeyeh.
That day she contented Nigel, she fascinated him, she charmed him with her flow of animal spirits. He could deny her nothing. And when, laughingly, she begged him, as she had dispensed with a maid, to let her have her own special donkey-boy and donkey in the Fayyûm, he was ready to acquiesce.
Did she steal something, or perhaps I ought to have had another woman in the house." "No, no; it wasn't that. I sent her away quite amicably; because I thought she'd be in our way in the Fayyūm. What could we do with her in a tent?" "You're going to manage without a maid?" A radiant look of pleasure came into his face. "You're a trump!" he said.
"I hate the woman who marries a man because she admires his character, and who then seeks by every means to change it, to reduce him from a real man to well, to a sort of male lady's maid. No, Nigel; stick to your work, and I'll manage all right." She felt just then that she could not endure it if he were always intent on her in the Fayyûm.
The sepulchres of the "Middle Empire" the XIth to XIIIth Dynasties in the neighbourhood of the Fayyûm may fairly be grouped with those of the same period at Dashûr, which belongs to the necropolis of Memphis, since it is only a mile or two south of Sakkâra.
They removed to the seat of the dominion of those whom they had supplanted, and they settled in the neighbourhood of Herakleopolis, near the fertile province of the Fayyûm, and between it and Memphis. Where the kings of the XIIIth Dynasty and the Hyksos or "Shepherds" were buried, we do not know. The kings of the restored Theban empire were all interred at Thebes.
To both spirit and body she held the torch, and each was warmed by the glow, and made cheerful and glad by the light. Nigel had cared for her in England, had loved her in the Villa Androud; but that care, that love, were as nothing to the feeling for her that sprang up in him in the midst of the springing green things that made a Paradise of the Fayyūm.
Armine knew this at evening when she saw her maid's eyes, and she wished she had brought with her an unintelligent English maid. And then, from the Fayyūm, a shadow fell over her the shadow of her husband. Eight days after her meeting with Baroudi among the flame-coloured rocks she was taken by Ibrahim and Hamza to the orange-gardens up the river which Baroudi had mentioned to Nigel.
In the Fayyūm fluted the Egyptian Pan by the water; in the Fayyūm, as in an ample and fruitful bosom, dwelt untrammelled Nature, loosed from all shackles of civilization. And there, perhaps to-morrow, Nigel would begin making his eager preparations for her reception and housing his ardent preparations for the taking of her "right down to Nature," as he had once phrased it to her.
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