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Bring a pail of water quickly and call to the malli to bring a pail of earth as you get it. Hasten! and there is baksheesh," said Mrs. de Warrenne quietly in the vernacular. Tap and pail were by the door of the back verandah. In a minute the hamal entered and flung a pail of water on the burning pool of oil, reducing the mass of blue lambent flames considerably.
During the first year or two, it was only of herself and Alfred she wrote; then, Alfred faded in the background; herself and a certain, new comer prevailed; one Alfred Fanshawe de Bassompierre de Hamal began to reign in his father's stead.
Do tell me what he said: I saw he was terribly cut up." "He said you looked as if at heart you were already Madame de Hamal." "Did he?" she cried with delight. "He noticed that? How charming! I thought he would be mad with jealousy?" "Ginevra, have you seriously done with Dr. Bretton? Do you want him to give you up?" "Oh! you know he can't do that: but wasn't he mad?"
He looked up suddenly. "Go on, conte I am all impatience. Who comes next?" "More fire-eaters, I suppose you will call them," I answered, "and French fire-eaters, too. Monsieur le Marquis D'Avencourt, and le beau Capitaine Eugene de Hamal." Ferrari looked astonished. "Per Bacco!" he exclaimed. "Two noted Paris duelists! Why what need have you of such valorous associates?
It is while looking at what seems both externally and internally complete and perfect happiness that the thought occurs how must these people sigh, when driven across the dreary wilderness that intervenes between the lake country and the sea-coast, for such homes as these! those unfortunates who, bought by the Arabs for a couple of doti, are taken away to Zanzibar to pick cloves, or do hamal work!
He had edged his chair a little away from mine, and was talking confidentially to his neighbor, Captain de Hamal his utterance was low and thick, but yet I distinctly heard him enumerating in somewhat coarse language the exterior charms of a woman what woman I did not stop to consider the burning idea struck me that he was describing the physical perfections of my wife to this De Hamal, a mere spadaccino, for whom there was nothing sacred in heaven or earth.
Soon after his marriage, M. de Hamal was persuaded to leave the army as the surest way of weaning him from certain unprofitable associates and habits; a post of attache was procured for him, and he and his young wife went abroad. I thought she would forget me now, but she did not. For many years, she kept up a capricious, fitful sort of correspondence.
Nothing would induce her to drink spirits, but the other servants are not like her. The mussaul is not a bad man, but the "Bootrail's" example infects him too. He barters the kerosine oil at the petty shop round the corner for arrack. As for the hamal, she is tired of fighting with him.
The hamal is impracticable, and the chupprassees adhere to the party in power for the time being. The Ayah is the "society" newspaper of small stations, and is indispensable.
The low-born hamál in the street will march up to the mouth of the guns without so much as a cup of coffee to animate him, with an absolute courage not found in men who have not his unswerving faith. To him Paradise is an almost visible reality, and the attainment of it depends only on his individual exertions.
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