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As the wind was now become very violent I did not feel disposed to stir out again, and I ordered D'oud to bring us three cups of coffee to the Bordj. He cast a vicious look at the Spahi and went out into the darkness. I saw him no more that night.
Then he shrugged again as if throwing aside the troubles that perplexed him and looked down on Craven with a quick laugh. "And you, my poor friend, who had so much better have taken the burnous I offered you, you will stay and watch the metamorphosis of the Spahi, hein?" "I wish I could," said Craven with an answering smile, "but I have my own work waiting for me in England.
Mais quelles dents! she sang out. Her people laughed at her. The Spahi looked at her again not smiling. She shrank back on the balcony. Then his place was taken by the Governor small imperial, chapeau de forme, evening dress, landau and pair. Mademoiselle was désolée. Why couldn't civilised men look like Spahis? Why were all Parisians commonplace? Why why?
"Monsieur is going for a walk?" asked the Spahi, fixing his eyes on my cigar. "Yes." "I will accompany monsieur." "Or monsieur's cigar-case," I thought. "But that poor fellow," I said, pointing to the murderer. "He is tired out." "That doesn't matter. He will come with us." The Spahi jerked the cord and we set out, the murderer creeping over the sand behind us like some exhausted animal.
Craven thought of the life led by the Spahi in Algiers, and during periods of leave in Paris, and contrasted it with the life that was lying before him, a changed and very different existence. He foresaw the difficulties that would have to be met, the problems that would arise, and above all he understood Said's chief objection the marriage from which his misogynous soul recoiled.
The Spahi was in fault. 'Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort' was there before him; and was preferred by the girl; and women should be allowed something to do with choosing their lovers, that I think, though it is true they often take the worst man. They quarreled; the Spahi drew first; and then, pouf et passe! quick as thought, Rac lunged through him. He has always a most beautiful stroke.
They were just reaching the road when there was a clatter of hoofs, and a Spahi, mounted on a slim white horse, galloped past at a tremendous pace, holding his reins high above the red peak of his saddle and staring up at the sun. Domini looked after him with critical admiration. "You've got some good horses here," she said when the Spahi had disappeared. "Madame knows how to ride?"
After this, when any of my companions talked of their bravery, or my father declared that he should be soon promoted to the rank of a Spahi, and that I was a lion's whelp, I very much doubted the fact. The pacha held out much longer than was at first anticipated; indeed, so long as to cause no little degree of anxiety in the capital.
A lucky thing to save the head of one of the War Office from a Bedouin's yataghan. Up up up, like a balloon, has this young Spahi risen ever since." "You are wrong, Beauchamp. Not like a balloon. Rather like a planet.
The commandant, having made the round of the fires, crossed over to his house under the arcades. He dismissed the sergeant and the guard, and they rode away to the barracks, the hoof-beats dying in the distance. The spahi remained, silent, motionless. The commandant was about to enter his door, when a man sprang from behind one of the pillars of the arcade and held out to him a paper.
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