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The camels shall not gall, the sons shall not fall sick, and the wives shall remain faithful while they are away, of the men who give me place in their caravan. Who will assist me to slipper the King of the Roos with a golden slipper with a silver heel? The protection of Pir Khan be upon his labours!" He spread out the skirts of his gabardine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses.
We had overalls of two different materials: Burberry "gabardine" and the ordinary green kind that is used in Norway in the winter. For sledge journeys, where one has to save weight, and to work in loose, easy garments, I must unhesitatingly recommend Burberry. It is extraordinarily light and strong, and keeps the wind completely out. For hard work I prefer the green kind.
And you who read! you unconvicted Convict you murderer, though haply you have slain no one you Felon in posse if not in esse deal gently with one who has used the Opportunity that has failed thee and believe that the Truthful and the Beautiful bloom sometimes in the dock and the convict's tawny Gabardine!
The young von Borselen took from the back of the settle, over which it was flung, his gabardine the long, loose gray cloak that was a sort of overcoat in those days of queer costume. "It is here, my Otto," he said. The Lord of Arkell drew the loose gray cloak over his rich silk suit, and turned toward the door. "Otto von Arkell lets no one call him fool or coward, lord prince," he said.
But a new "Hep Hep" was wanted, and so "Semites" was hauled from the world of books, disfigured, and fastened upon the Jewish gabardine in noble emulation of the barbarism of the Middle Ages.
At the helm stood the Jew; his whole figure enveloped in a gabardine, the cowl of which, raised above his head, gave him almost the appearance of a spectre in its shroud; whilst upon the deck, mixed with Europeans in various kinds of dresses, all of them picturesque with the exception of my own, trod the turbaned Moors, the haik of the hadji flapping loosely in the wind.
I doubt if a convert to the religion of Mahomet was ever made by calling a man a Christian dog. I doubt if a Hebrew ever became a good Christian if the baptismal rite was performed by spitting on his Jewish gabardine. I have often thought of the advance in comity and true charity shown in the title of my late honored friend James Freeman Clarke's book, "The Ten Great Religions."
The familiar Hebrew broker, in dark blue or black gabardine and greasy skull-cap, was strongly en evidence; while as to the state of the dogs we met, of them must the Moorish proverb be written, "If fasting be a title to Paradise, let the dog walk in first."
He waited by the steps for a few moments until a scullion in long gabardine came down and dipped his bucket in the swift current. "Here, my fine fellow," accosted Roland, "do you wish to earn a pair of gold pieces?" and he showed the yellow coins in the palm of his hand. The menial's eyes glistened, and he cast a rapid glance over his shoulder. "Yes," he replied breathlessly.
To see mamma dressed you'd be surprised to know the number of square inches of surface there are to her arms. I think it must be delightful to be a hermit. That cassock or gabardine, isn't it? that you wear is so becoming. Do you make it or them of course you must have changes yourself? And what a blessed relief it must be to wear sandals instead of shoes!
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