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Waving each wrist in turn, the little maid would fasten upon it a serious gaze, as if she were a snake-charmer and each arm was a serpent, her hand representing the head, which waved ever back and forth restlessly and in time to the strange music. Before leaving, a mock marriage was performed for our benefit by the one-eyed Pandita.
They looked down on men and women in Roman chariots, men on horseback, women on horseback, on elephants, on camels painted ladies in howdahs, painted ladies in sedan chairs Cleopatra, Pompadour history reduced to pantomime, color imposed upon color, glitter upon glitter, the beat of the tom-tom, the crash of the band, the thin piping, as the white-turbaned snake-charmer showed in the press of the crowd.
"Ah, dat is a great yerb, mass'; dat is a scace plant a berry scace plant. Eat some ob dat no snake bite you, as you jes seed. Dat is de plant ob de snake-charmer." The botanical knowledge of my sable companion went no farther.
There was something unspeakably repellent to her in its toadlike advance. "Make one of the men send him away!" she whispered urgently. "Please do! It may be a snake-charmer as you say. He moves like a reptile himself. And I abhor snakes." But Dacre stood his ground. He felt none of her shrinking horror of the bowed, misshapen creature approaching them.
Perry could not resist quoting softly: "'Oh, camel, wouldn't you like to belong to the pretty snake-charmer for all your " "Shut-up!" cried Betty. There was a pause. "Betty," said Perry finally, "there's only one thing to do that will really get us out clear. That's for you to marry me." "Marry you!" "Yes. Really it's the only " "You shut up! I wouldn't marry you if if " "I know.
Showy shops, where the inexperienced traveller may see all the products of Sind and Benares, and Cutch and Cashmere, spread before him at fixed prices, are multiplying rapidly and taking the bread from the mouth of the poor hawker. But the snake-charmer seems safe from that kind of competition.
I have a feeling I am afraid I " She broke off panting, her fingers tightly clutching his sleeve. "Don't go!" she reiterated. He put his arm round her. "My dear, what do you think a tatterdemalion gipsy is going to do to me? He may be a snake-charmer, and if so the sooner he is got rid of the better. There! What did I tell you? He is coming out of his corner. Now, don't be frightened!
A crowd gathered, but the snake-charmer saw only the big man who had spoken to his homesick heart, and the girl with the silver beads. He knew another girl who had had a string of beads like that and they had brought her luck a dark-skinned girl, his daughter. Her husband had bestowed the beads on her marriage night, and her first child had been a son.
The connection between these performances and the man's second trade, namely, snake-charming, is not obvious to a Western mind; but it must be remembered that the snake-charmer is not a mere, vulgar juggler, amusing people with sleight-of-hand. His feats are miracles, performed with the assistance of superior powers.
'A man is only a snake-charmer because, without recourse to medicine, he is proof against the fangs of the most venomous serpents. 'Do you think so? said Arthur. 'I saw the most noted charmer of Madras die two hours after he had been bitten by a cobra, said Haddo. I had heard many tales of his prowess, and one evening asked a friend to take me to him.
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