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Updated: June 19, 2025
Lady Chetwynd Lyle, remarkable for bad taste in her dress and the disposal of her diamonds, stared in haughty amazement at the Nubian, who saluted her and her daughters with the grin peculiar to his uninviting cast of countenance, and swept into the courtyard attended by her husband with an air as though she imagined her presence gave the necessary flavor of "good style" to the proceedings.
On returning to Cairo he expected to go back to England, and that made him none the less glad to be spinning along so quickly. "I wish we could go like this all the way, Hassib," he said to the Nubian sitting by him; "we should soon get home then, eh?" "We shall go faster than this when we come to the cataract," said Hassib, with a grin; for there was a joke here.
We shall only stay a few hours. Send Ali to me, and see to it that the yacht reaches its destination soon." Jacopo bowed, and shortly afterward Ali appeared. "Ali," said the count, turning to the Nubian, "have you carried out my orders?" Ali folded his arms across his breast and nodded his head. "And you know that your life is at stake?" Ali again nodded. "Good; you can go."
Tahuti has got a wonderful man, who, when you pull a string, works a roller up and down upon a board, just like a baker rolling out dough, and besides he has a crocodile that moves its jaws. His sister has dolls: a fine Egyptian lady and a frizzy-haired, black-faced Nubian girl. Sometimes they play together at ninepins, rolling the ball through a little gate.
They were the crude jewels which the Nubian nomads hammer out of shillings or two-franc pieces, I was told that Selim would certainly be hanged, because the little girl's mother refused the tendered blood-money.
Then they looked at one another in silence or muttered their disgust; but the Nubian went into transports of rage, making such violent demonstrations that the image-makers and curriers turned on him and bade him cease. At the Libyan shore Kenkenes gave his bari into the hands of a river-man and by a liberal fee purchased its security from confiscation.
A few of the people staying in the hotel were lounging about, but these paid no particular heed to Gervase or his companion. At about two hundred yards from the entrance of the Mena House, the Nubian stopped and waited till Gervase came up with him. "Madame la Princesse vous aime, Monsieur Gervase!" he said, with a sarcastic grin. "Mais, elle veut que l'Amour soit toujours aveugle! oui, toujours!
"You do not mind in what capacity you go?" "No, sir; I am ready to do anything." "To work on the railway, or in the transport?" "Yes, sir. Though I would rather not be on the railway, for the railway cannot get on as fast as the troops; but I would enlist in one of the English regiments, if they would take me." "And you speak the language of the Nubian blacks?"
When she put it down he was kneeling beside her. He put his arms around her. "I won't be that again." A very faint perfume from her hair came to him, now that he was so close to her. "I don't want to be that ever." He held her, and, while he held her, he listened to the Nubian sailors and to the word that was nearly always upon their tireless lips. "Al-lah Al-lah Al-lah!"
This had never been entrusted to maids of inferior position like the Nubian; so Cleopatra would miss Charmian. The thought filled her with fresh uneasiness and, when the steps were at last free, she asked herself anxiously how all this would end.
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