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The executioner, le taule; the forest, le sabri; fear, flight, taf; the lackey, le larbin; the mineral, the prefect, the minister, pharos; the devil, le rabouin. Nothing is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, le rabouin, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. In the second place, metaphor.
After Peter's death, his half-sister gave up novels for Egyptian and Roman history, took to studying hieroglyphics, and learning translations of Greek poetry. She invited a clairvoyant and crystal-gazer, claiming Egyptian origin, to visit at her Madison Square flat. Sayda Sabri, banished from Bond Street years ago, took up her residence in New York, accompanied by her tame mummy.
Besides, he'd be a last resort: and Sayda Sabri said I ought " "Why not wire Sir Marcus?" I ventured. "Oh! well I was thinking of it. That's one thing I wanted to ask your advice about. I believe he does love me." "Idolizes is the word." "And now and then in the night I've had a feeling, it was almost like wasting something Providential, to refuse a Marcus Antonius.
Sayda Sabri warned me to wait for a man named Antony, whom I should meet in Egypt. That's why I but no matter now. The 'Lark' is a dreadful obstacle, though. How could I live with a lark?" "Lady Lark has quite a musical lilt." "Do you think so? There's one thing, even if you're the wife of a marquis or an earl, you can only be called 'Lady' This or That. You might be anything.
It was a Bond Street crystal-gazer transplanted to Fifth Avenue told her who she really was: you know Sayda Sabri, the woman who has the illuminated mummy? It's Cleopatra's idea that Monny's second mourning for Peter should be white, nothing but white." "Her idea! But I thought Miss Monny, as you call her, adopted only her own ideas.
Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the direct creation and the metaphor: le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking, I suspect that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods.
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