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Hamoud, now gripping his dagger as if he would presently escape this scene by plunging the blade into his breast, uttered: "Dying?" "It will pass," the physician answered, with a movement of reproof. Hamoud, afflicted by disbelief, by a despair that swept away his fatalism, by a fury that called for revenge, bared his teeth and demanded: "I shall bring him? We show her to him?" "Who?"
The shauri is over! In the morning we return!" "What do they say, Hamoud?" "They say that in the morning they will return to the coast." She sat stunned. The orator from Tete moved with a kind of spasmodic dancing gait toward Parr. Never thus had the white man's genius lain prostrate before him. He was the symbol of a race abruptly exalted from inferiority to dominance.
He lifted the bottle containing the solution of arsenic. "Have not taken any of this?" He pronounced in a tone of suffocation. "Remember must never take it until Hamoud has dropped it." He set down the bottle. It fell upon its side. But alas! it did not break. "Hamoud! what has happened?" In mercy, with a violent gesture, with a sensation of sickness, he thrust the newspaper into David's hands.
Hamoud glanced malignantly toward the floor. "Hardly!" The physician resumed his contemplation of the patient, who had descended into a stupor that was to last for days. There was a hush over the house amid the old trees.
She pronounced with an extreme rapidity, in muffled tones: "I am on the ship Faster! Faster!" She uttered a cry that was heard all over the house. When Hamoud and the servants came running, they found her rigid; but while they were telephoning for the nearest physician the convulsions began. Tossing about, she showed intense fear of all who tried to approach her. The women ran from the room.
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