flying-fingers

Updated: May 3, 2025

All this time another priest, an old patriarch with a fez and green turban and Nile-green robe overlaid with another of rose-pink, was scrutinizing my face. Then the corn-yellow fellow and the rose-pink patriarch put their heads together, consulted for a moment, made me a low bow, performed the flying-fingers act, and floated off toward the mosque. "You no go 'way, effendi," explained Joe.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women