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In fact he was only curious to see how far a Kashmiri beggar's audacity would carry him. Within half a dozen paces of them, in the full moonlight, the shambling figure halted and salaamed with clawlike hands extended. His deformity bent him almost double, but he was so muffled in rags that it was difficult to discern any tangible human shape at all.
Damaris in her turn rushed, across the square, passing the astounded spectators, who salaamed as she ran. And as she ran she shouted: "Let the animal loose," she cried. "Give it a chance; let it loose."
Tell him that if through his means we recover our friends, I promise him the hundred dollars, though he must come on board my ship to receive them." The old slave-dealer again salaamed, and, through Hamed, expressed his perfect satisfaction with the arrangements.
After a half hour's delay, the door was once more thrown open, and a venerable old Turk entered: he salaamed three times most reverently, and motioned to us to be seated, declining, at the same time, by a gentle gesture of his hand, our invitation. He was followed by a train of six persons, all splendidly attired, and attesting, by their costume and manner, the rank and importance of their chief.
"Shut up," said the commodore, a trifle testily; "that's the number-one nigger, who does the talkin'. Hello, boy." "Hello, cap'n," replied the savage, and salaamed gravely. "You likee buy chicken, buy pig? Maybe you say come 'board, I talk. Me very good friend white master." "Bless my sweet-scented soul!" gasped the commodore. "What won't them missionaries do next?
Those who went by near her salaamed as they passed, but took no further notice of her. A strange look came into Diana's eyes. This was the desert indeed, the desert as she had never expected to see it, the desert as few could expect to see it. But the cost! She shuddered, then turned at a sudden noise near her.
But it took a good deal more than the sudden appearance of a native to make the old lady start. She put out her cigarette with the toe of a red shoe, took another from the snuff-box, rasped a match not on the sole of her foot this time lit the fragrant weed and looked at the man, who salaamed. "Yes?" she said courteously. "I am the fortune-teller, great lady.
"Go now; you have my leave. His Highness wishes to see you. I have sent him word that you are here." The engineer rose and salaamed respectfully. Then, with a nod to Macgregor, he withdrew full of thought. He had not known before that the conspiracy to expel the British was so widespread and promising. He had not regarded it very seriously hitherto.
Hamilton turned to his servant with a pleased smile on his handsome, animated face. "You are an artist, Pir Bakhs, and a sort of magician, to do all this in twelve hours." Pir Bakhs bowed and salaamed by the door, his well-formed polished face wreathed in many smiles.
Through the veil Pundita's black eyes sparkled with hatred. When Kathlyn came in it was at once explained to her that the woman's husband had been taken for murder; by law his wife became the queen's property, to dispose of as she willed. The veil was plucked from Pundita's face. She was ordered to salaam in submission to her queen. Pundita salaamed, but stoutly refused to kneel.
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