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Updated: May 3, 2025
There might be a simple and innocent reason for what struck Lella Mabrouka as mysterious, but she determined to find out. In Ourïeda's green and gold bed from Tunis lay Sanda in a nightdress of Ourïeda's with her head wrapped up as Ourïeda's was often wrapped by Embarka as a cure for headache. Instantly the whole plot was clear to the mother of Tahar.
The thing was, politely and kindly, to keep her a prisoner until after Ourïeda had gone to her husband. Then Tahar could protect his property; and once an Arab girl is married, she is seldom asked to elope, even by the bravest and most enterprising of lovers. But what what? The answer was not long in coming.
Even the society of Béclère was answerable for his suffering, and he thought how he must go away and travel again; only open solitude and wandering with rough men could still his pain; primitive Nature was the one balm.... That fellow Tahar why did he delay? Owen thought of the eagles, the awful bird pursuing the fleeting deer, and himself riding in pursuit.
"'And now mademoiselle sees? said Tahar. "She opened her eyes. "'Nothing. "'Yet the mirage is still there, he said. "'Valérie, cried her sister, 'are you mad that you see what no one else can see, and cannot see what all else see?" "'Am I mad, Tahar? she said gravely, almost timidly, to the dragoman. "And the fear of the Sahara came again upon her.
"Let the excitement of being a bride bring back thy health, like wine in thy veins, Little Rose," said the Agha, speaking in French out of compliment to the guest, and to show her that there was no family secret under discussion which she might not share. "It is not exciting to marry my cousin Tahar," Ourïeda sighed rather than protested.
In the blue gloom where the stars were night lights Max recognized the long black beard of the Agha flowing over his white cloak. None rode near him. Tahar was not there. Max took that as a good sign. "Who are you?" demanded the uniformed Legionnaire in his halting Arabic. "In the name of France, I demand your business."
But though blessed with prosperity and high health, there was one thing wanting a wife. And when he came to speak of the matter, his countenance fell, and he leaned dejectedly upon his plane. "It's too bad!" he sighed, "to wait three long years; and all the while, dear little Lullee living in the same house with that infernal chief from Tahar!"
All this cold whiteness after the jewelled blaze of colour was like the death of youth and hope. She pushed the thought away hastily, telling herself it had come only because Ourïeda had threatened to put an end to her own life rather than marry Tahar; yet it would not go far away.
They made me say good-bye to her in Tahar's tent, where she is waiting, all dressed up like a doll, till the hour at night when her husband chooses to come to her. Instead, we hope But I can hardly bear it, not to know! Shall we ever know?" "It may be a long time before Manöel can send us any word," said Max. "But we shall hear, I suppose, about Tahar."
My father sent him to the university in Algiers, because, you see, he was Christian or, rather, he was nothing at all then; he had not settled to any belief. Tahar was like Aunt Mabrouka, very religious, and did not care much to study, except the Koran and a little French. He went once to Paris, but he didn't stay long. He said he was homesick. Oh, he is clever in his way!
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