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Updated: June 28, 2025
Y in order to watch the progress of his paint-ing, left his seat and looked attentively at the dangerous group, quietly smoking his gargari Rajput narghile the while. "If you do not stop screaming you will attract all the wild animals of the forest in another ten minutes," said he. "None of you have anything to fear.
It was a convenient establishment, where you could get a meal, or a bottle of wine, or even beer, if you would pay for it, or simply take a chibouque or narghile, and a cup of coffee or a sherbet. "Try the lemonade; they make it first-rate here," said Howard; and Harry took his advice, and swallowed a big glassful of nectar, which no iced champagne he had ever drunk could beat.
Jansoulet alone newly arrived with a stock of cumbersome Oriental ideas in her mind, like her ostrich eggs, her narghile pipe, and the Tunisian bric-a-brac in her rooms protested against what she called an impropriety, a cowardice, and declared that she would never set her foot at her house.
Hussein smoked a narghile of dark red Bohemian cut crystal. M. Petronievitch and myself were supplied with pipes which were more profusely mounted with diamonds, than any I had ever before smoked; for Hussein Pasha is beyond all comparison the wealthiest man in the Ottoman empire.
You are laid gently on the reposing bed; somebody brings a narghile, which tastes as tobacco must taste in Mahomet's Paradise; a cool sweet dreamy languor takes possession of the purified frame; and half-an- hour of such delicious laziness is spent over the pipe as is unknown in Europe, where vulgar prejudice has most shamefully maligned indolence calls it foul names, such as the father of all evil, and the like; in fact, does not know how to educate idleness as those honest Turks do, and the fruit which, when properly cultivated, it bears.
Also cigarettes of every description were lavishly strewn on all the little tables, and hovering about us all the time were the thin-legged, turbaned black menials with baggy silk trousers and bright silk sashes. Everything was so Oriental that, had I stayed there a little longer, I should not have been surprised to see myself sitting cross-legged on a divan smoking a narghile.
The native cafes are nearly all kept by Moslems; one, as I have stated elsewhere, by an Arab, born in Oude in India; another by a Jew, which is frequented by the children of Israel, and is very dirty. I once went in to smoke a narghile, and see the place, but made my escape forthwith.
Brave in heart but not in speech, Comte Adam merely stipulated that he should not be compelled to answer until he had finished his narghile. "If any difficulty occurred when we were travelling," said Clementine, "you always dismissed it by saying, 'Paz will settle that. You never wrote to any one but Paz.
We went through courts, ascended steps, passed along a corridor, and walked into an airy, whitewashed room, with an European clock at one end of it, and Moostapha Pasha at the other; the fine, old, bearded potentate looked very like Jove—like Jove, too, in the midst of his clouds, for the silvery fumes of the narghile hung lightly circling round him.
"Isn't everything going on right?" asked the count, taking the "bocchettino" of his narghile from his lips. "Everything is going on so right that other people with an income of two hundred thousand francs would ruin themselves by going at our pace, and we have only one hundred and ten thousand." A footman entered, dressed like a minister. "Tell Captain Paz that I wish to see him."
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