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Ratu Lala would generally hand the bowl to me first, and I would wash my hands in silence, but directly he started to wash his hands, everyone present, including chiefs and attendants, would start clapping their hands in even time, then one man would utter a deep and prolonged "Ah-h," when the crowd would all shout together what sounded like "Ai on dwah," followed by more even clapping.
What better advice could he give? And what line of action would be better or safer for himself? If James had known who was in the house-passage, the other side of the door, there would, I think, have been a collision of two solid bodies. But he did not know, and presently Lala Roy came back, and the torture began again.
She was driven on to a coral reef in a bad storm off the coast of Taviuni. The captain seemed to stand in much fear of Ratu Lala. He told me many thrilling yarns about him; said he robbed his people badly, and added that he did not think that I would get on well with him, and would soon be anxious to leave. I landed at the large village of Somo-somo, glad to be safely on terra firma once more.
Mr. Lala Lajpat Rai, who has the merit of often speaking with great frankness, addressed himself once in the following terms to "those estimable gentlemen in India who believe in the righteousness of the British nation as represented by the electors of Great Britain and Ireland, and who are afraid of offending them by the boycott of English-made goods": If there are any two classes into which the British nation can roughly be divided they are either manufacturers or the working men.
This question betraying a flaw in the wise woman's perception, gave Moll courage, and she answered readily enough that she was called "Lala Mollah" which was true, "Lala" being the Moorish for lady, and "Mollah" the name her friends in Elche had called her as being more agreeable to their ear than the shorter English name. "Mollah Moll!" says Anne Fitch, as if communing with herself.
Once, when we were moving from the Salt Lake to "C" Beach, Lala Baba, the Indians moved all our equipment in their little two-wheeled carts. They were much amused and interested in our sergeant clerk, who stood 6 feet 8 inches. They were joking and pointing to him in a little bunch. Going up to them, I pointed up to the sky, and then to the Sergeant, saying: "Himalayas, Johnnie!"
"You seem very curious about that watch," he said at last, turning away and busying himself with his stuffs. "Then you will not swear?" I asked, putting the watch back in its place. "I cannot swear to what I do not know. But I know the man who sold it to me. He is the Lala of a harem, that is certain. I will not tell you his name, nor the name of the Effendi to whose harem he belongs.
You will teach me lawn-tennis, Arnold; and I should like, I think, to learn dancing. I suppose I must leave off making my own dresses, though I know that I shall never be so well dressed if I do. And about the cakes and puddings but, oh, there is enough pretending." "It is difficult," said Lala Roy, "to bear adversity. But to be temperate in prosperity is the height of wisdom."
When James had made a clean breast and confessed his enormous share in the villainy, Lala Roy bound him over to secrecy under pain of Law, Law the Rigorous, pointing out that although they do not, in England, exhibit the Kourbash, or bastinado the soles of the feet, they make the prisoner sleep on a hard board, starve him on skilly, set him to work which tears his nails from his fingers, keep him from conversation, tobacco, and drink, and when he comes out, so hedge him around with prejudice and so clothe him with a robe of shame, that no one will ever employ him again, and he is therefore doomed to go back again to the English Hell.
It will be well for you to wait until he has gone." "Why? He is my husband, whatever we have done, and I'm not ashamed of him." "Is he your husband? Ask him what I meant when I said his home was at Shadwell." "Come, Lotty," said Joe, with a curious change of manner. "Let us go at once." "Wait," Lala repeated. "Wait, young woman, let him go first. Pray pray let him go first." "Why should I wait?
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