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"We have tasted your absence and found it bitter, Mahommed," Dimsdale answered in kind, with a touch of plaintive humour, letting the envelope fall from his fingers on the bed, so little was he interested in any fresh move of Imshi Pasha. "More tricks," he said to himself between his teeth. "Shall I open it, effendi? It is the word that thy life shall carry large plumes."
He had never seen her before; of that he was sure. He ordered them coffee, and handed the girl a goldpiece. As he did so, he noticed that among several paste rings she wore one of value. All at once the suspicion struck him: Imshi Pasha had sent the girl to try him perhaps, to gain power over him maybe, as women had gained power over strong men before.
She's been here for six months has more influence than the whole diplomatic corps. Twists old Imshi Pasha round her little finger. She has played your game handsomely I've been in her confidence. Wordsworth was wrong when he wrote: "'No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor: The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door For my wife's been her comrade.
"I may be a fool, my dear," Dimsdale said after her; "but you might say the same of the Pasha who sent you here." Dimsdale was angry for a moment, and he said some hard words of Imshi Pasha as he watched the two decoys hurry away into the dusk. He thought it nothing more serious than an attempt to know of what stuff he was made.
Leave was given to visit Alexandria, and this, to those visiting the East for the first time, afforded endless interest. It was there we learned to scatter the unfortunate natives with "imshi" or stronger, and what "mafeesh" meant. The officers were fortunate in securing for their mess the cool verandah of a solitary house round which the camp was pitched.
When Torpenhow returned with a gigantic portfolio, he heard Dick say, almost soothingly, 'Now, I hope this will be a lesson to you; and if you worry me when I have settled down to work with any nonsense about actions for assault, believe me, I'll catch you and manhandle you, and you'll die. You haven't very long to live, anyhow. Go! Imshi, Vootsak, get out! The man departed, staggering and dazed.
Nobody would have been welcome, but we would have preferred a pig to Yussuf Dakmar. Jeremy, democrat of democrats, who had slept without complaining between the legs of a dead horse on a rain-swept battlefield, with a lousy Turkish prisoner hugging him close to share the blanket, was up in arms at once. "Imshi!" he ordered bluntly. But Yussuf Dakmar was delighted.
It wasn't Imshi Pasha, and it wasn't English influence, and it wasn't the Caisse de la Dette, each by its lonesome, or all together by initiative." "What was it who was it, then?" inquired Dimsdale breathlessly. "Was it you? I know you've worked for me. It wasn't backsheesh anyhow. But Imshi Pasha didn't turn honest and patriotic for nothing I know that."
What did it matter what did it all matter, in this grave tremendous quiet wherein his soul was hasting on? The voices receded; he was alone with the immeasurable world; he fell asleep. When he woke again it was to find at his bedside a kavass from Imshi Pasha at Cairo. He shrank inwardly. The thought of the Pasha merely nauseated him, but to the kavass he said: "What do you want, Mahommed?"
"He is coming yonder with Imshi Pasha." "I know of him as a millionaire," he answered, in a tone of mingled emotions. "I must introduce you," she said, and seemed to make an effort to hold herself firmly. "He will have great power here. Come and see me to-morrow," she added in an even voice. "Please come Harry." In another minute Dimsdale heard the great financier Arnold St.
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