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Updated: June 10, 2025
The amin shows them with sad satire, saying in explanation, "French Roumi:" it was the Christian French. That is the term, meaning no compliment, which the Kabyle fits to all Europeans alike. In vain the Frenchman, writhing with intellectual repugnance, explains that he is not a Christian that he is a Voltairean, a creature of reason, an illuminé.
And if she loves thee also, she would not go alone; so my wish is to do what I can for both." "What canst thou do?" the girl asked. "I will tell thee. But first there is something to make clear. I was on my roof to-day, when a young Roumi rode up to the Zaouïa on the road from Oued Tolga. He looked towards the roofs, and I wondered.
Evidently he intended to show the persistent Roumi that he was not to be intimidated or browbeaten, or else he did not really mean to come at all. The thought that perhaps, while he waited, he had been quietly made a prisoner, brought Stephen to his feet.
Look at what he has done. All the Bureaux will tell you there is not a finer Roumi in Africa not even among our Schaouacks! Since he joined, there has not been a hot and heavy thing with the Arabs that he has not had his share in. There has not been a campaign in Oran or Kabaila that he had not gone out with. His limbs are slashed all over with Bedouin steel.
The Roumi travelers taste the succulent viand, taste again, eat till ashamed, and are ready to declare that never was mutton properly dressed before. If possible, they vow to introduce the undissected roast, the bonfire, the spit and the cook with imperturbable heel into the cuisine of less-favored lands more distant from the sun.
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