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At the same time the clatter of hoofs became audible from the road behind the inn. Haschim turned round and was aware of torchbearers running ahead of a chariot. "The sick man has come so far by water," said the Arab, "and now, he is to be driven home. Strange! this is the second time to-day that I have met his much-talked-of son!" The governor's pleasure-barge was nearing the palm-grove.
Ebony, the faithful and sable servitor of the family, got hold of Orlando as soon as his poor mother would let him go, and hurried him off to a certain nook in the neighbouring palm-grove where he was wont to retire at times for meditation. "You's quite sure yous fadder was not shooted?" he began, in gasping anxiety, when he had forced the boy down on a grassy bank.
Never had she realised the strength of her swift, straight ankles never till now the free, joyous power in her supple limbs. Before her rose the palm-grove, distinct in all its beauty of feathery-topped trees, against the gorgeous starlit sky.
Couldn' sleep a wink," said Ebony one day, some weeks after the return of Orlando, when, according to custom, he and the native missionary and his wife, with the chiefs Tomeo and Buttchee, assembled for a consultation in the palm-grove. "What have you been thinking about?" asked Orley. "Yous fadder, ob course."
And now, once again, we find ourselves in the palm-grove of Ratinga Island. It is a fine autumn afternoon. The air is still as regards motion, but thrilling with the melody of merry human voices as the natives labour in the fields, and alive with the twittering of birds as they make love, quarrel, and make it up again in the bushes.
At once the thought rushed upon my mind, that the Mezzeni had overtaken us, and were meditating an attack, now that we were so near the place of their main encampment. This was directly confirmed by the sound of a gun-shot in the palm-grove, which was soon followed up by a second.
The little villa in which Melissa lay was in a bower of verdure, and the veranda with the wide door through which the bed of the sufferer had been carried in, stood open in the cool evening to the garden, the palm-grove, and the place of worship with its garland, as it were, of fragile tamarisk boughs.
"If I do this for you if I save you if I show myself to the Sheik, then you must let me go to the palm-grove to-night." Doolga fell back from her, surprise and terror and horror mingling in her face. She clasped her small, soft hands together and wrung them. "Oh, Silka! you know, if he sees you, he will not look at me again; he will not care." Silka smiled a slow, painful smile.
I have met him often when I went to draw water, and sometimes we have stayed together in the palm-grove. I was so happy till father sold me to the Sheik; and now I must part from Melun for ever! Do not make me, dear, darling Silka; do not send me to the Nile!" She spoke with increasing excitement, with passionate intensity.
The old priests, who conducted the service of the Goddess, had received the daughter of Rameses with respect, and undertook to restore her to cleanness by degrees with the help of the water from the mountain-stream which watered the palm-grove of the Amalekites, of incense-burning, of pious sentences, and of a hundred other ceremonies.
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