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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was at this school fête that I discovered the identity of Miss Fanshawe's M. Isidore. She whispered to me, after the play: "Isidore and Alfred de Hamal are both here!" The latter I found was a straight-nosed, correct-featured little dandy, nicely dressed, curled, booted, and gloved; and Isidore was the manly English Dr.
One day, my wife saw the Hamal in the act of filling the filter, and it occurred to her to warn him to let the water cool first, lest he might crack the filter. "Oh yes," said he, "I thought of that. After boiling the water, I cool it down by mixing an equal quantity of cold water with it, and then I put it into the filter."
In Bombay, since hard times set in, the offices of Hamal and mussaul have got a little mixed, and a man will show you characters testifying that he has served in both capacities. Such a man is, properly speaking, simply a mussaul who has tried to do the Hamal's work. The cleaner of furniture and the lighter of lamps and washer of plates and dishes cannot change places or be combined.
The Pasha then called his steward, and not only compelled him to pay the Hamal his money, but discharged him from his service, in which he had been engaged for many years. A Turk decided to have a feast, so he killed and stuffed a goose and took it to the baker to be roasted.
"Him you call the man," said she, "is bourgeois, sandy-haired, and answers to the name of John! cela suffit: je n'en veux pas. Colonel de Hamal is a gentleman of excellent connections, perfect manners, sweet appearance, with pale interesting face, and hair and eyes like an Italian.
He knew that the ayah's husband sold the Colonel's soda-water, paraffin, matches, candles, tobacco, cheroots, fruit, sugar, etc., at a little portable shop round the corner of the road, and of the terms on which the hamal and the butler supplied these commodities to the ayah for transfer to her good man.
The poor Hamal was miserable, his hard-earned savings gone. He at last gathered courage to go and put his case before the Pasha. He took the bag of piasters, and with trembling voice and faltering heart he assured the Pasha that though he had received his bag apparently intact, on opening it he found that it contained copper piasters and not the medjidies he had put in it.
I stood erect and perfectly calm wiping with my handkerchief the little runlets of wine that dripped from my clothing the glass had fallen at my feet, striking the table as it fell and splitting itself to atoms. "Are you drunk or mad, Ferrari?" cried Captain de Hamal, seizing him by the arm "do you know what you have done?"
Ferrari next proffered his request to his quondam friend De Hamal, who also declined to second him, as did every one among the company.
'You'd better slide, Jack. Evado, you blackguard! Hidi! git! chabouk! 'You are merry, my friend, said my unwholesome countryman, who was very drunk indeed. 'But I am not a Hamal that you speak to me so. 'There's half-a-crown, said young Grammont, throwing a coin on the carpet. 'Wait at the Red Lion. It's all right.
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