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Ginevra had written to her cousin Paulina, vaguely signifying hymeneal intentions; communications had been received from the family of de Hamal; M. de Bassompierre was on the track of the fugitives. He overtook them too late. In the course of the week, the post brought me a note. I may as well transcribe it; it contains explanation on more than one point:
To the two pretty English girls, Lady Sara and Ginevra Fanshawe, she addressed several sentences; as she left them, both, and especially the latter, seemed to glow all over with gratification. They were afterwards accosted by several ladies, and a little circle of gentlemen gathered round them; amongst these the nearest to Ginevra stood the Count de Hamal. "This room is stiflingly hot," said Dr.
"Will Monsieur have the goodness to move an inch to one side?" "How! At what are you gazing now? You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens?" "I think so Yes, I see there a person I know." In fact, I had caught a glimpse of a head too pretty to belong to any other than the redoubted Colonel de Hamal. What a very finished, highly polished little pate it was!
Now it was my painful duty to go every morning up to his office-room and see that peon had put fresh ink and everything ready and that the hamal had dusted properly.
The American protested that, much as the gift delighted his taste and roused his gratitude, it was impossible to think of carrying a canary back to Constantinople. "If you please..." insisted the imperturbable bey. "It is yours!" Scarcely had we returned, indeed, before another patient hamal knocked, lugging the hapless bird.
If she feels for me positive coldness and aversion, it is a sign I do not deserve her." "Do you doubt yourself? Do you consider yourself the inferior of Colonel de Hamal?" "I love Miss Fanshawe far more than de Hamal loves any human being, and would care for and guard her better than he.
He provides himself with a more magnificent cumberbund, enlarges the border of gold thread on his puggree, and furbishes up his English that he may converse pleasantly with mem saheb. He orders about the other servants with a fuller voice than before, and when anyone calls for a chair, he no longer brings one himself, but commands the hamal to do so. He feels supremely happy!
This kind of employment came into the country with our rule, so that the domestic Hamal, who is an offshoot of the palkee hamal, or "bearer," has not had time to become what fanciers would call a permanent strain, and you will find that you can convert Rama into a chupprasse, a malee, or even a ghorawalla, but into a mussaul never.
Oh, that divine de Hamal! And then to watch the other sulking and dying in the distance; and the old lady my future mamma-in-law! But I am afraid I and Lady Sara were a little rude in quizzing her." "Lady Sara never quizzed her at all; and for what you did, don't make yourself in the least uneasy: Mrs. Bretton will survive your sneer." "She may: old ladies are tough; but that poor son of hers!
When I see lovely flowers, I wish more of them when I behold a fine sunset, I desire many more such sunsets when I look upon a lovely woman " "You would have lovely women ad infinitum!" laughed the French Capitaine de Hamal. "En verite, Gualdro, you should have been a Turk!" "And why not?" demanded Gualdro. "The Turks are very sensible people they know how to make coffee better than we do.
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