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Updated: May 16, 2025
P. Sybarite disengaged and got up on his feet. In a daze, P. Sybarite shook and felt himself all over, unable to credit his escape from that rain of bullets. But he was apparently unharmed. Kismet!...
Life was short, and if children of mixed races were to suffer the hell he must suffer through honour, well, surely praise should be offered to Allah in that he would never see his man-child upon the breast of woman. "Kismet!" He whispered the Oriental's supreme submission to the inevitable and caught his breath, then lit another cigarette.
Afterward, when he was in the trenches, he wondered about that. He called it "Kismet" to himself. It was really a compound, that first day or two, of homesickness and a little furtive stirring of anxiety and the thrill of new adventure that was in his blood.
When asked where he thought she was going, he replied with solemn indifference, 'Kismet; and all the survivors of the crew for one had been washed overboard seemed to share his resignation. The only thing he did seem to care for was that if the infidel woman chose to persist in coming on deck, the canvas screen which had been washed overboard should be restored.
It was kismet it had to be. You should not have interfered." "And pray what would have happened if I had not interfered? What shame, what ruin, what disgrace!" "It is useless for you to rant and rave in that manner," said Florence Lepel, letting her eyes drop once more to the open pages of her French novel. "You did interfere, and there is an end of it. And what an end!
They seemed to regard themselves as in worse plight than prisoners and awaited with resignation whatever might be their kismet. So I asked them were they afraid lest Gooja Singh might meet with violence, and they replied they were afraid of nothing. They added, however, that no man could say in those mountains what this day or the next might bring forth.
When morning came, I was sullenly resigned to the worst. "Kismet!" said I, as I unfolded her ladyship's dresses, and was blinded by the glare of the scarlet satin. "Try it on," commanded my mistress. "I want to get an idea how you will look."
For the sake of a little social meeting at any cost, they accepted it; accepted it with a sigh, midway as by engineering measurement between prospective and retrospective; as nearly mechanical as things human may be, like the Mussulman's accustomed cry of Kismet.
He believes a magic hand protects the Saadat, and that, adhering to him, he himself will carry high the flower of good fortune and live for ever. Kismet! I will not wait to see Lady Eglington. I beg to offer to her my congratulations on the triumph of her countryman." His words had no ulterior note; but there was a shadow in his eyes which in one not an Oriental would have seemed sympathy.
The lifeboat would be of little use: besides, it could not arrive for some time. Gaston had recognised the Kismet. He turned to Andree. "There's danger, but perhaps we can do it. Will you go?" She flushed. "Have I ever been a coward, Gaston? Tell me what to do." "Keep the helm firm, and act instantly on my orders."
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