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Updated: June 26, 2025
I made no protest, but when the Spahi was asleep, his lean brown hand laid upon his sword, his musket under his shaven head, I pushed one of my blankets over to the murderer, who lay looking like a heap of rags against the white wall. He smiled at me gently, as he had smiled when the desert drum was beating, and drew the blanket over his mighty limbs and face. I did not mean to sleep that night.
One Spahi a great fellow, eyes like a desert eagle, grand aquiline profile on whom three roses had dropped, looked up, saw mademoiselle call her Valérie gazing down with her great, bright eyes they were deuced fine eyes, by Jove! "You've seen her?" I asked. " and flashed a smile at her with his white teeth. It was his last day in the service. He was in grand spirits. 'Mem Dieu!
I will not go home again until I can play what I have seen to-day." Contributed by An Oriental Traveller. "A great, long devil of a Spahi in his red burnous." Daudet.
'Roman d'un Spahi deals with Algiers. Taton-gaye is a true 'bete-humaine', sunk in moral slumber or quivering with ferocious joys. It is in this book that Loti has eclipsed Zola. In 1884 was published 'Les trois Dames de la Kasbah, relating also to Algiers, and then came 'Madame Chrysantheme' , crowned by the Academy.
While I looked at him the Spahi suddenly gave a tug at the cord to which he was attached. He moved in nearer to the horse, glanced up at me, held out his hand, and said in a low, musical voice, speaking Arabic: "Give me a cigarette, Sidi." I opened my case and gave him one, at the same time diplomatically handing another to the Spahi.
Then he seized the Spahi by the collar and led him away captive, the Turk all the time begging for mercy, and promising him a ransom of two hundred gold guldens if he spared his life. Valentine brought his captive safely to the rear, where the captain praised him for his valor, but said that they had now had quite enough fighting for one day. The skirmish was over.
Here, upon a deal table, was set forth my repast; the foods I had brought with me, and a red Arab soup served in a gigantic bowl of palmwood. A candle guttered in the glass neck of a bottle, and upon the floor were already spread my gaudy striped quilt, my pillow, and my blanket. The Spahi surveyed these preparations with a deliberate greediness, lingering in the narrow doorway.
When a man writes like this, he also needs a lawyer;" and he commenced a new deal. The commandant stood a moment, thinking. Then he raised his head with a jerk, and said to Ali: "Tell your master that I say 'yes." Ali made salaam and glided from the room. "He has left his knife," said the lawyer. The commandant turned to the spahi.
All day and every day did the garrison fight, snatching such repose as was possible when their pertinacious enemies, worn out by fatigue and the terrible heat, could no longer be led to the attack against those whom they now firmly believed to be in league with Shaitan himself; "For how else," demanded Janissary and Spahi alike, "could infidels like these make head against those chosen of the Prophet like ourselves."
"Corporal," he said, "go to the citadel and bring back twelve men. Place six of them at the entrance of the square, and six of them before my house. When Abdullah's caravan has entered the square, have the further six close in behind. You may take your time. It will be an hour before you are needed." The spahi saluted, and went out. The commandant turned to the little man in black.
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