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With trembling lips he made answer: "This city spare me uttering its name, Master! lies many hours' journey, even by this Eagle of the Sky, beyond the Iron Mountains that no man of the Feringi hath ever seen. It lies beyond the Great Sand Barrier, in a valley of the Inner Mountains; yea, at the very heart of Ruba el Khali." "I hear thee, Rrisa. Speak further. And let thy speaking be truth!"
"Nino," she said, "can you remember something to say to papa?" "Oh, yes," he answered. "I am quite old enough for that. Don't you remember how I repeated", "'Questo domanda del pan; Questo dise, no ghe n'e; Questo dise come faremo; Quell' altro dise; rubaremo; Il mignolo dise; chi ruba 'mpicca, 'mpicca!"
'In the usual way, said Gyp: 'by finding a rhyme to him, and then putting him under foot. 'But suppose he won't be deposed? 'Ah, it will be our turn then, said Ruba gloomily. 'He will appoint a successor, and we shall be repeated backwards. At this all the Brethren curled their moustachios and sighed deeply.
Each had a playbook beside his plate, and they were apparently studying their parts for the morning performance. 'Good morning! Fine day for the deposition, said Gyp, acting as spokesman for the rest. 'Have a bone? 'I have no appetite, replied Yellow-cap. 'Why are you all dressed in white? 'So that we may be the blacker inside, said Ruba, looking up from his book.
The thought of it made him feel quite hot; and he was so far forgetting himself as to be on the point of taking off his cap to cool his forehead, when Gyp caught his arm, and a murmur of horror ran through the assembly. 'Forbear! as you value your credit! cried Ruba. 'And your gentility! exclaimed Dubb. 'And your influence! called out Dubsix. 'And your success! shouted Menin.
They and we all of us we changed the course of history for more than two hundred million human beings. And as for you and me " He turned, looking at the map. Then he got up from the table, went to that map and laid a hand on the vast, blank expanse across which was printed only "Ruba el Khali" the Empty Abodes. "It would wreck the whole structure of civilization if we told," said he.
At last he aroused himself to make answer: "The treasure, Master, is far to the south-east in another city." "Ah! So there is another city far out in Ruba el Khali, the Empty Abodes!" "Yea, M'almé, that is so." "Then the ancient rumor is true? And it is from near that city that thou didst come, eh? By Allah's power, I command thee to tell me of this hidden city of the central deserts!"
We always have that in our grasp, at any rate after having taken full toll of these devils. I should not mind, so much, defeat at the hands of the nobler breed of the Arabian Peninsula. There, in the Ruba el Khali itself, I know a chivalric race dwells that any soldier might be proud to fight or to rule over. But these Shiah heretic swine ah, see now, they are taking cover already?
I recognise six of the portraits, but where is the seventh? He was the one whose face was the most ugly and disagreeable of all; but I don't see him here. 'He is here, said Ruba. Yellow-cap was going to ask, 'Where? but Gyp laid his hand upon his arm and whispered in his ear that he must not interrupt until the whole verse had run itself out. 'We have seen him, continued Dubb.
Hereupon they weighed anchor, and steered towards Curasao. Being come within sight of it, they landed at another island near it, called Ruba, about twelve leagues from Curasao to the west.
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