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Updated: May 24, 2025
And I sat alone, crying and sobbing on the sand-hillock, with the surf roaring miles out at sea behind me, and the great plain before, with Matthew walking over it alone on his way to the mountains beyond. "When I had had time to get ashamed of myself for crying, and had got my eyesight clear again, he was already far away from me.
He answered, 'There was a Chief among the enemy, an Arab, before the terror of whom my people fled. Cried she, 'Conquer him on the morrow, and till then I eat not, drink not, sleep not. On the morrow Mashalleed again encountered the rebels, and Bhanavar, seated on her elephant, from a sand-hillock under a palm, beheld the prowess of the Arab Chief and the tempest of battle that he was.
I sat down on the sand-hillock where we had said Good-bye, and burst out crying. What with the dreadful secret he had been telling me as we came along, and then the parting when I didn't expect it, all I had of the man about me gave way somehow in a moment.
The corporal rode up to Lukashka. 'Are they far? was all Lukashka said. Just then they heard a sharp shot some thirty paces off. The corporal smiled slightly. 'Our Gurka is having shots at them, he said, nodding in the direction of the shot. Having gone a few paces farther they saw Gurka sitting behind a sand-hillock and loading his gun.
He answered, 'There was a Chief among the enemy, an Arab, before the terror of whom my people fled. Cried she, 'Conquer him on the morrow, and till then I eat not, drink not, sleep not. On the morrow Mashalleed again encountered the rebels, and Bhanavar, seated on her elephant, from a sand-hillock under a palm, beheld the prowess of the Arab Chief and the tempest of battle that he was.
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