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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Oh, plenty of time," cried Fatma, who immediately seized the not unwilling Agnes by the hand, and ran off with her. Opposite to Zara sat her sister Hanyfa, who looked pretty and innocent enough just then, though Mrs Langley was struck by her look of superior intelligence, and a certain sharpness of glance which might almost have been styled suspicious.
That evening Hanyfa sat at the feet of her lord, Sidi Hamet, and watched the curls of smoke which, arising from the bowl of his magnificent hookah, rolled like cannon-wreaths from beneath his frowning and no less magnificent moustache. "Zooloo is a smart girl," said Hamet, referring to something that had just been said. "She is," assented Hanyfa.
By her advice they cut off a good deal more of the flaxen hair, and deepened the dye on the eyebrows, nails, and palms. Gradually, however, Hanyfa drew the negress Zooloo from the scene of action, and entered into a very earnest conversation in whispers, quite unheeded by the riotous youngsters.
Sidi Omar came forward, and all the relatives said that it was an excellent match all save one, Zara's eldest sister, Hanyfa. Hanyfa was to speak plainly a bad girl. She was one of the wives of a great officer of state in other words, a particularly noted pirate named Sidi Hamet. Now, Hamet was the Aga or commander-in-chief of the cavalry.
He was an ambitious man, and a rival of Sidi Omar in this respect. Of course he hated Omar, and so did his wife Hanyfa, hence her objection to him as her sister's husband. But neither she nor Hamet could stay the marriage; they therefore made up their minds to endure it.
To which Agnes replied, also with her eyes, innocently "No, not yet, but I hope to be soon." Whereupon the whole party laughed immoderately and said, each one with her eyes "There can't be the smallest doubt whatever upon that point!" At this point they were interrupted by the entrance of Hanyfa, but that lady, far from damping their ardour, took particular pleasure in assisting.
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