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The remainder of that night was nightmare pure and simple mules and horses squealing in instinctive fear of action they felt impending gipsies and Armenians dragging packs out on the floor, to repack everything a dozen times for some utterly godless reason Rustum Khan seizing each fugitive Armenian in turn to question him, alternating fierce threats with persuasion Kagig striding up and down with hands behind him and his scraggly black beard pressed down on his chest and the great fire blazing with reports like cannon shots as one of the Turk's sons piled on fuel and the resinous wet wood caught.
Mahmoud Bey had evidently hurried up almost his whole division, and was driving them forward into our trap as if he knew he could swallow trap and all. Not even foolish generals act that way. It needs a madman. Kagig had said nothing about Mahmoud being mad. "Listen, Rustum Khan!" I said. "Go with a message to Lord Montdidier.
Strange to say, it was Rustum Khan who gave up all further pretense at sleeping and ran round to fling the door open Rustum Khan who took part with Kagig, and helped drive them out into the dark, and Rustum Khan who stood astraddle in the doorway, growling after them in Persian the only language he knew thoroughly that they likely understood: "Bismillah! Ye have heard a man talk!
Suddenly Fred began to shout for help then, and we rode back, the gipsies following and Rustum Khan remaining on guard between them and their camp with his upbrushed black beard bristling defiance of Asia Minor. Our Turkish muleteers had decided to make a final bolt for it, and were using their whips on the Zeitoonli, who clung gamely to the reins.
Nothing points more clearly to the clarifying tension of that night than the fact that Rustum Khan with his notions about gipsies could compel himself to lie still with a gipsy's head within three inches of his own, and sham sleep while the gipsy whispered to him. I was not the only one who observed that marvel, although I did not know that at the time.
"That well may be," said Monty gravely. "I remember you always were a student of significant details, Rustum Khan." "There was a time when I was in your honor's confidence." Monty smiled. "That was years ago. What are you doing here, Rustum Khan?" "A fair enough question! I hang my head. As you know, sahib, I am a rangar. My people were all Sikhs for several generations back.
"What do you know, sirdar?" Monty asked him. "The woman lies!" Maga was glaring at Rustum Khan as a leopardess eyes an enemy. As he spoke she made a significant gesture with a finger across her throat, which the Rajput, if he saw, ignored. "To what extent?" demanded Kagig calmly. "Wholly! I followed her.
Rustum Khan was purposing to use him as prisoner-of-war, whereas in accordance with a private agreement made beforehand you were determined to make matters easy for him. He demands of us better treatment in fulfilment of promise. He says that the army is coming to take Zeitoon, and to make you governor in the Sultan's name. He offered us that argument thinking we are your dupes. He thought to "
Read Sohrab and Rustum and write an account of it, having in mind the story, Arnold's use of his material, the style, and the classic elements in the poem. How does it compare in melody with the blank verse of Milton or Tennyson? What marked contrasts do you find between the poetry and the prose of Arnold? Ruskin.
Other school editions in Everyman's Library, Belles Lettres Series, etc. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Selections, edited by Elizabeth Lee, in Standard English Classics. Selections also in Pocket Classics, etc. Matthew Arnold. Sohrab and Rustum, edited by Trent and Brewster, in Standard English Classics. The same poem in Riverside Literature Series, etc. Selections in Golden Treasury Series, etc.
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