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Updated: June 17, 2025
Hamza would not recognize the East that was in Isaacson, or perhaps he felt the Jew. When the voice of Mrs. Armine was heard from the threshold of the lighted chamber these two had not spoken a word.
But Ibrahim, without a smile, had answered that he knew nothing of Hamza, and in Mrs. Armine's heart had been growing the hope that Hamza had gone to seek Baroudi, that perhaps he would presently return with a message from Baroudi. And yet could any good, any happiness, ever come to her through the praying donkey-boy?
He marshalled his army and put a great white banner at their head, gave the leadership to Hamza, and so marched forth to attack the rebellious Kainukaa. For fifteen days the tribe was besieged in its strongholds, until at last, beaten and discouraged, faced by scarcity of supplies, and the certainty of disease, it surrendered at discretion.
You don't understand. Nigel has been very good to me, and I am very happy with him." "If he's been good to you, don't you wish him to get well?" "Of course I do. I've been waiting upon him hand and foot." "And not even a maid to help you although she did ring last night for Hamza, when we were here." She looked down, and picked at the dim embroideries that covered the divan.
She did not care. She was going under this singing sky, over this singing land, through this singing sunshine. That was surely enough. Once or twice she looked at Hamza, and, because he never looked at her, presently she spoke to him, making some remark about the weather in English. He turned his head, fixed his unyielding eyes upon her, said "Yes," and glanced away.
When they were at the top she said: "Where's Hamza, Ibrahim?" Ibrahim's boyish face looked grim. "I dunno, my lady. I know nothin' at all about Hamza." For the first time it occurred to Mrs. Armine that Ibrahim and Hamza were no longer good friends. She opened her lips to make some enquiry about their relation.
"Hamza is he your servant?" she asked, with an apparent irrelevance, that was not really irrelevance. "He is a donkey-boy at Luxor." "Yes. He used not to be my donkey-boy. He has only been my donkey-boy since since my husband has gone. They say in Luxor he is really a dervish." "They say many things in Luxor." "They call him the praying donkey-boy. Has he too been to Mecca?"
He came out on to the balcony, and she gave him one of the little cups. "Did you make it yourself?" "No. But I will to-morrow. Hamza has been showing me how to." He took the cup. "It smells delicious, as enticing as perfumes from Paradise. I think you must have made it." "Drink it, and believe so you absurd person!" she said, gently. He sipped, and she did likewise. "It's perfect, simply perfect.
At that moment something within her was struggling, like a little, anxious, active creature, striving fiercely, minute though it was, to escape out of a trap. It seemed to her that it was the introduction of Hamza into her life by Baroudi that was furtively distressing her. "I always do live for the day as it comes," she continued.
Each day Hamza, the praying donkey-boy, awaited her at some point fixed beforehand on the western side of the river, and Ibrahim escorted her there in the felucca, smiling gently like an altruistic child, and holding a rose between his teeth.
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