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"Besides, we want gazelle for dinner, Batouch says, though I don't suppose we should starve without it." She came to the tent door and stood beside him, and he put his arm around her. "If I were alone here, Boris," she said, leaning against his shoulder, "I believe I should feel horribly sad to-day." "Shall I stay?" He pressed her against him. "No. I shall know you are coming back.
Isabel then turned her large velvet eyes gazelle eyes with a world of pathos in their velvet gloom on her elder brother. "Coruscate, Val," she commanded. "You haven't said anything at all yet. We should all try to be bright in the home circle. We cannot all be witty, but-Ow!
"You don't like the Arabs?" "Like the dirty dogs! You haven't been told about me, m'sieu?" "Only that your name was Fin Tireur." "'Fin Tireur. Yes; that's what they call me in the desert." "You're a sportsman? A 'capital shot'?" He laughed suddenly, and his laugh made me feel cold. "Oh! they don't call me 'Fin Tireur' because I can hit gazelle, and bring them home for supper. No, no!
Then he called a waiter, and said to him, in a hectoring voice: "Bring me a Kummel and make haste about it." He lit a cigarette that was almost as big as a cigar, and turned again to Lady Holme. "I've been in the Sahara gazelle shooting," he continued. He spoke in a rather thick, lumbering voice and very loud, probably because he was married to a deaf woman. "Just come back," he added.
'It has always been the same with me, said Mr Swiveller, 'always. 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay, I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with its soft black eye, but when it came to know me well, and love me, it was sure to marry a market-gardener.
And tears sprung likewise to the eyes of the sultan's wife, and she said, 'I am sorry for you, my husband, that you should deal so wickedly with that gazelle'; but he only answered, 'Old woman, pay no heed to the talk of the mistress: tell it to perish out of the way. I cannot sleep, I cannot eat, I cannot drink, for the worry of that gazelle.
There was no locality above Jacksonville to which our friends had not been; and I proposed to breakfast the Gazelle's people on board, and starting at six in the morning make a trip to Fort George Island, where the Garbrooks had never been, or even below Jacksonville on the river. The plan was received with acclamation, and I hastened on board of the Gazelle to present the invitation of Owen.
Then the Prince, without even waiting to sheathe his sword, rushed back to the gazelle, crying: 'Now you have had plenty of time to recover your wits, and you have nothing more to fear, so tell me who you are, and what this horrible Giant, with his lion and his serpent, have to do with you and for pity's sake be quick about it.
They had four or five species of what might loosely be called birds, and something that could easily be classed as a reptile, and a carnivorous mammal the size of a cat with birdlike claws, and a herbivore almost identical with the piglike thing in the big Darfhulva mural, and another like a gazelle with a single horn in the middle of its forehead.
Julian's horse, Gazelle, died last night; the poor animal had been ill for some days. "Quonga, who is the sheik of this district, came this morning and excused his absence in rather a lame fashion, by saying that he had been collecting food for the troops, together with carriers, who are now ready to transport the baggage to Masindi.
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