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"Burra suar!" it raged; then hailed imperiously, "Ko hai?" Where the lanterns clustered brightest, an active little figure in white waved a helmet, crying, "On deck! Where the devil does Maurice Heywood live?" "I'm up here," called that young man. For reply, the stranger began to skip among his cohorts, jerking out his white legs like a dancing marionette.
With the years he prospered increasingly, so that, when he was thirty-six, the promise of his figure was fulfilling rapidly, and, himself a member of the exclusive and powerful Hai Gum Tong, and of the Chinese Merchants' Association, he was accustomed to sitting as host at dinners that cost him as much as thirty years of towing on the eleventh cataract would have earned him.
"You are going away to be a great Ranee," she said at last, in a voice that was steady enough now, "and if you be wise you shall have much power that will endure many days, and even last into your old age. What have I been? A slave all my life, and I have cooked rice for a man who had no courage and no wisdom. Hai! I! even I, was given in gift by a chief and a warrior to a man that was neither.
Prisoner and guard both halted in front of the wicket; and the people pressed forward to see but in silence. Then the officer called out, "Sugihara San! Sugihara O-Kibi! is she present?" A slight small woman standing near me, with a child on her back, answered, "Hai!" and advanced through the press. This was the widow of the murdered man; the child she carried was his son.
I wanted something from my tent, and sent Meeanh, my Indian chaukidar, to fetch it. He was going off in the dark to do so, when I called him back and told him to take a lantern for fear of snakes. This he did, and as soon as he got to the door of the tent, which was only a dozen yards off, he called out frantically, "Are, Sahib, burra sanp hai!" "Where?" I shouted.
"Big trouble, Sahib Amritsar," answered the fleshly one, wiping the dusty sweat from his forehead, and shaking it unceremoniously from his finger-tips. "Word comes that our leaders are taken. Mahatma Ghandi, also. The people are burning and looting; Bank-ghar, Town Hall-ghar; killing many Sahibs and one Mem-sahib. Hai! hai! Now there will be hartal again; Committee ki ráj. No food; no work.
Its fleet was lost, its coast strongholds of Port Arthur and Wei Hai Wei were held by the enemy, and its capital was threatened from the latter place and by the army north of the Great Wall.
The wind bowled and moaned in it, and the futile lantern rays only suggested unimaginable, things death the least of them. "Art thou afraid?" asked Ismail, holding the lantern to King's face. "Kuch dar nahin hai!" he answered. "There is no such thing as fear!" It was a bold answer, and Ismail laughed, knowing well that neither of them believed a word of it at that moment.
Pagodas of different sizes and styles were passed, and when we arrived at the village of Hai Tien, about four li from the Palace gates, we were told by the officers we only had a short distance further to go. This was good news, as I began to think we would never get there.
"Hokkeny baro." "A great swindle, my wise sir. Hai, what a pity you cannot patter the gentle Romany tongue. Kek! Kek! What does it matter, when you speak Gentile gibberish like an angel. Sit, rye, and I dance for you." "Quite like Carmen and Don José in the opera," murmured Lambert, sliding down to the foot of the rude stone. "What of her and of him? Were they Romans?"
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