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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Our Parisians, filled with excitement, gazed above the pointed ears of their beasts, over the shimmering waste. There, beyond the palms of the oasis, wrapped in a mysterious haze, lay the mirage. They looked at it in silence. Then Mademoiselle cried, in her little bird's clear voice: "'Mirage! But surely he's real? "'What does mademoiselle see? asked Tahar quickly.
She was waited upon only by the women and the two black giants who rode behind the white camels: and altogether Sidi Tahar Ben Hadj was in his actions an example of that Arab chivalry about which Sanda had read. Nevertheless she was not able to like him.
At dinner, while the stars came out, they talked of the mirage, and mademoiselle still insisted that it was a mirage of a horseman bearing something before him on his saddle-bow, and riding as if for life. And Tahar said again: "'Mademoiselle dreams! "As he spoke he looked at her with a mysterious intentness, which she noticed.
It is her son, who is my father's heir because he has no son of his own. My father is very enlightened in many ways, but in others he is as narrow and hard as the rest of our people, who hold to their old customs more firmly than they hold to life. My father intends me for the wife of Si Tahar, who met and brought you to our house." Sanda could not keep back a little gasp of dismay.
To have his nephew, his heir by law, become the father of his grandsons, was his best hope now, and nothing except Ourïeda's death or Tahar's death would make him give it up. "My dear nurse Embarka would kill Tahar for me if she could get at him," the "Little Rose" said one day, calmly.
"Allah has appointed that I marry my cousin Tahar," she said to Sanda, "and I shall marry him, because I have not another stiletto nor any poison, and I am always watched so that, even if I had the courage, I could not throw myself down from the roof. But afterward I am not sure yet what I shall do. All I know is that I shall never be a wife to Tahar. Something will happen to one of us.
Yet when my father told me about Tahar, all my faith in Manöel could not keep me brave. My father is splendid, but he will stop at nothing with those who go against him. At first he said I must be married when I was sixteen, but I reminded him that seventeen was my mother's age when he took her; and I begged him, "for luck," to let me wait.
As they journeyed in the sun across the endless flats for the mountains had vanished now, and nothing broke the level of the sand mademoiselle's gaiety went from her. Silent was the lively, chattering tongue that knew the jargon of cities, the gossip of the Plage. She was oppressed. Tahar rode close at her side. He seemed to have taken her under his special protection.
They asked me to allow the Bandar to govern them, as they are much troubled by the Gadong people. Abang Tahar lately demanded four Dyak boys of Pangara Achong, and two from the Orang Kaya of Sirkaru; beside which, the Sadong people seize their property whenever they go among them. They are very poorly off for grain. They asked me for a letter which should prevent people from annoying them.
"'Why, a sort of faint landscape, through which a man an Arab, I suppose is riding, towards Sidi what is it? Sidi-Okba! He's got something in front of him, hanging across his saddle. "Her relations looked at her in amazement. "'I only see houses standing on the edge of water, said her sister. "'And I! cried the husband. "'Houses and water, assented Tahar.
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