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Speaking of clean things " "Who was she?" Cadman asked. "She was the most beautiful thing on earth. She was indeed the most marvellous thing on earth, being a Bombay singing nautch-girl undefamed. There has been no one else, these ages." The Doctor sat smoking, apparently oblivious of his guests. "The Spartan Helen?" Cadman suggested. "Hah! The Spartan Helen was not invincible!" "The Noor Mahal?"
They all stand for a moment in a languid and graceful attitude, the music strikes up a fresh air, and each nautch-girl assumes the first position of her dance. She stands with outstretched arm and hand, quivering them, and allowing her body very slightly to partake of the same movement. Her feet mark the time of the music, not by being raised, but by merely pressing the floor with the toes.
In all my life I have seen but two my mother and a nautch-girl who cringed to me. I should not like my wife to cringe to me. Are there not such as could be my companion, my comrade? Or are they all servile slaves?" Behar Asor laughed shortly and contemptuously. "They are our inferiors," he said, "hence they can not be more than companions for our idle hours.
On what beloved breast or brow of princess, nautch-girl, concubine yes, maybe of slave exalted to the purple had that fire-gleaming diamond blazed? From Roman times, from Greek, from ancient Jerusalem, from the fire-breathing shrines of Baal at long-dead Carthage, perhaps, this topaz might have come.
"I don't wonder at any one who has seen that not looking at a nautch-girl afterward." And he quickened his pace toward Mr. Molyneux's house. He met them before he reached their door. "I am going to Miss Tresilyan," Fanny said. "Isn't it lucky, her first morning here being such a delicious one?" "Ah! I thought that was your point," answered Keene.
"I don't know," he said dubiously, "if I'm not mistaken, I've heard some sinful language at night." As they got further in, two names attracted their attention spoken together like one word Dhoop Kichari-lal and Koob Soonder. Of course Koob Soonder Utterly Beautiful they first thought could mean none other than the Bombay nautch-girl whom they sought yet later they were to learn the truth.
"Suppose," he said, slowly, "that Shirley was a secret agent of the British government, charged with the mission of finding out whether Mrs. Rogers was contributing unknowingly, perhaps to hatching another Indian mutiny? Would that suggest anything to you?" "And the nautch-girl whom he had known in Calcutta followed him, hoping to worm from him the secrets which he " "Not too fast," he cautioned.
Anthony, as if she noted that she was not wearing the necklace now. "Is that Englishwoman a member of the cult?" queried Kennedy, a moment later, as, quite naturally, he looked over at Mrs. Anthony. "Who is she?" "Oh," replied Mrs. Rogers, quickly, "she isn't an Englishwoman at all. She is a Hindu I believe, a former nautch-girl, daughter of a nautch-girl. She passes by the name of Mrs.
The sort of thing a nautch-girl might bo supposed to compose, to sing to the clash and clang of cymbals, while she was performing the snake-dance before some Juggernaut idol!" "Exactly," Guy answered, shutting his eyes dreamily. "That's just the very picture it brings up before my mind's eye as you render it, Nevitt.
Tessa continued to smoke and dance, posturing like a nautch-girl in front of the wholly unresponsive and unappreciative Monck. The minute passed, Stella counting the seconds with a throbbing heart. Monck did not raise his eyes or stir, but there was to her something dreadful in his utter stillness. She marvelled at Tessa's temerity.
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