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Updated: June 13, 2025
But almost the next instant Momus drew up his mount so suddenly that Laodice was roused. He turned and began to make rapid signs. Laodice half rose as she read them and pressed her hands together. "Seven days!" she exclaimed in dismay. There was silence. Momus made the camel kneel. He dismounted slowly, and began to undo the tent-cloth in a roll beside the howdah.
But misfortune had taught her spirit humility; and the recollection of nights passed in the desert, with only a thin mattress betwixt her and the naked earth, and a little tent-cloth and the boughs of trees to protect her from inclement skies, caused her to regard her present retreat with such feelings of satisfaction as she might have indulged if in the chamber of a palace.
Gently they laid him underneath the sod And left him with his fame, his country and his God!" "Yes," said Judith, sweetly and gravely. "How can we but like them? And I hope that you will find the tent-cloth, Mr. Washington." Reentering, presently, the large room, they found a vague stir, people beginning to say good-night, and yet lingering.
Two or three long poles hold it up, and over them hangs a cloth made of goats'-hair, or sometimes sheepskins, which are thick enough to keep out either heat or cold. The ends of the cloth are fastened down by pegs driven into the sand, or the strong wind coming might blow the tent away. The tent-cloth pushes back like a curtain for the door.
Adams was sitting looking at the two porters whom he had set to hunt for firewood; he was watching their grotesque figures, and more than grotesque shadows, when a movement of the sick man under the tent-cloth caused him to turn. Berselius had awakened.
Slavens read by the last muddy light of day. "I will hold you to a strict account of your promise to me that you would not act in this matter without first returning here." There was no word of where she had gone, no time fixed for her to return. He had found the envelope pinned to the tent-cloth when he rode up, weary and grim, from his journey to Meander. Inside the tent all was in order.
A canvas framed, on which the ground had been laid, and the outline of a head already traced, was mounted on the easel; other such frames, as if of finished portraits with their faces turned to the wall, stood on the earthen floor, supported by a strip of wood tacked to the tent-cloth near the bottom. On the floor, at the foot of the easel, lay an artist's sketch-book.
All his right side was naked, and of the color of his face, and quite as meagre; a shirt of the coarsest camel's-hair coarse as Bedouin tent-cloth clothed the rest of his person to the knees, being gathered at the waist by a broad girdle of untanned leather. His feet were bare. A scrip, also of untanned leather, was fastened to the girdle. He used a knotted staff to help him forward.
Upon the tent-cloth, rendered highly inflammable by the saturation of spirits and oil, I laid about sixty rockets. My two horses and three donkeys would be loaded with baggage. I gave orders for the march early on the following morning. The rear-guard was to set fire to the station; this was the sad result of our industry and labour in a land of detestable savages.
It grew more furious. There was confusion. He sprang to his feet and looked out to see what was the matter. Soldiers were running through the camp. "What is the row?" he asked. "The Rebels are attacking us." It did not take him long to dress; but, while pulling on his boots, a bullet tore through the tent-cloth over his head. The camp was astir. Officers shouted, "Fall in!"
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