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"The spare room is ready," he added, leading me to the door. Then he clapped his hands to call the servant, before I could prevent him. "But I have already been to the hotel," I protested. "Go to Missiri's with a hamál, and bring the Effendi's luggage," he said to the servant, who instantly disappeared. "Caught," he exclaimed, laughing, as he opened the door and showed me my little room.
Meanwhile, he took a hamál, a luggage porter from the hotel, and, armed with a lantern and a stick, began to beat the different quarters of Pera, judging that in the three or four hours before daylight he could pass through most of the streets. Hour after hour he trudged along, pale with fatigue and anxiety, his big features hardening with despairing determination as he walked.
She showed her ring exultingly; she called herself Madame la Comtesse de Hamal, and asked how it sounded, a score of times. I said very little. I gave her only the crust and rind of my nature. No matter she expected of me nothing better she knew me too well to look for compliments my dry gibes pleased her well enough and the more impassible and prosaic my mien, the more merrily she laughed.
The hamal, respectfully pointing out to the Bootlair Sahib that the daylight was yet strong and lusty enough to shame and smother any lamp, complied with deliberation and care, polishing the chimney, trimming the wick, pouring in oil and generally making a satisfactory and commendable job of it.
Low on the eastern horizon, straight outward from my beach, was the beginning and end of the great zodiac band the golden Hamal of Aries and the paired stars of Pisces; and behind, over the black jungle, glowed the Southern Cross.
Cholmondeley should be fondling her lapdog at some window, or Colonel de Hamal picking his teeth in a balcony, and should catch a glimpse of us, you would not quite blush for your companion?"
So far concerning them; but as regards Sahim al-Layl, who had been wounded in the fight with Al- Hamal, he went in to his sister Mahdiyah, and she rose to him and kissed his hands, saying, "May thy two hands ne'er wither nor shine enemies have occasion to be blither! But for thee and Gharib, we had not escaped captivity among our foes.
And yet he had neither forgiven nor forgotten Miss Fanshawe. Once angered, I doubt if Dr. Bretton were to be soon propitiated once alienated, whether he were ever to be reclaimed. He looked at her more than once; not stealthily or humbly, but with a movement of hardy, open observation. De Hamal was now a fixture beside her; Mrs.
En revanche, he says you once frightened him by rushing in for a dress or a shawl, or some other chiffon, at the moment when he had struck a light, and was going to take a quiet whiff of his cigar, while waiting for me. "Do you begin to comprehend by this time that M. le Comte de Hamal was the nun of the attic, and that he came to see your humble servant? I will tell you how he managed it.
"Bravo, mon vieux gaillard!" cried Captain de Hamal. "Your sentiments are the same as mine, with a very trifling difference. You believe women to be angels I know them to be devils mas il n'y agu'un pas entre es deux? We will not quarrel over a word a votre sante, mon cher!" And he drained his glass, nodding to Mancini, who followed his example.
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