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Updated: May 5, 2025
What have you got to say before you say your prayers?" said Dicky to the Orderly. "Mafish!" answered Mahommed Ibrahim, moveless. "Mafish nothing!" And he said "nothing" in good English. "Say your prayers then, Mahommed Ibrahim," said Dicky in that voice like a girl's; and he backed a little till he rested a shoulder against the binnacle.
You've got it all fixed up between yourselves to stick with me until Ali Higg is mafish* and then bolt for the skyline with the plunder. Not a bit of use arguing I know. You shouldn't talk your plans over in coffee-shop corners if you don't want me to hear of them." * Lit., nothing corresponds to "na-poo" in Army slang. "Jimgrim, you are the devil!" "Maybe. But let's understand each other.
Him not "mafish" when him go in there, said Ali. "'Nonsense! I said. 'Who ever heard of a live mummy? "We lifted the body out of the coffin, nearly choking ourselves with mummy dust in the process, and there beneath it half hidden among the spices, we made our first find. The other two rolls were neatly fastened in the usual fashion. All three are written by one hand in the Demotic character.
It was well made, but of perfectly plain cedar-wood not an inscription, not a solitary God on it. "'Never see one like him before, said Ali. 'Bury great hurry, he no "mafish," no "fineesh." Throw him down here on side. "I looked at the plain case till at last my interest was thoroughly aroused.
Though I never loved him as I loved my Boy, still I tried to be a good wife to him, and never turned my eyes to any other man." Suddenly she stopped as though the pain of speaking was too great. Madame Bulteel murmured something, but the only word that reached the ears of the others was the Arabic word 'mafish'. Her pale face was suffused as she said it.
Those poor Russian pilgrims faring foot-sore across the great frozen plains, lured on by this mirage of blessedness, sleeping by the wayside, and sometimes never waking again! Poor humanity, like a blind Oriental beggar on the deserted roadway crying Bakhshísh to vain skies, from whose hollow and futile spaces floats the lone word, Mâfísh "there is nothing."
Then, too, we will get the rolls deciphered. Needless to say, I did not narrate this little adventure in Egypt, or I should have had the Boulac Museum people on my track. Good-bye, 'Mafish Fineesh, as Ali Baba always said."
Though I never loved him as I loved my Boy, still I tried to be a good wife to him, and never turned my eyes to any other man." Suddenly she stopped as though the pain of speaking was too great. Madame Bulteel murmured something, but the only word that reached the ears of the others was the Arabic word 'mafish'. Her pale face was suffused as she said it.
Now I certainly had a roof above my head, but I could not make myself understood; for not a soul spoke Italian, and my whole knowledge of Arabic was comprised in the four words: taib, moi, sut, mafish beautiful, water, milk, and nothing. With so limited a stock of expressions at my command, I naturally could not make much way, and the next day I was placed in a very disagreeable dilemma.
"Mafish!" he remarked, summing up the situation in two syllables. "Nothing doing!" I would have given, and would give now, most of what I own for that man's ability to pass such curt, comprehensive judgment without reservation, equivocation, or hesitation.
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