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Updated: May 29, 2025
And the sentimental face he pulled he ought to have had a spot-light and wailing woodwinds." McLean chuckled. "I'll believe anything of him now," Ryder rushed on. "I'll bet he murdered Delcassé and kidnapped the mother and now he is selling their daughter " "I fancy murder's a bit beyond our Tewfick. That's too thick. He's probably telling the truth there he may never have known Delcassé.
You see, I knew she was truly a French girl who had been stolen by Tewfick Pasha and brought up as his daughter Oh, that's a long story, too!
She saw herself, in those moments, helpless, and hopeless, passing on into the slavery of this marriage Aimée, no longer the daughter of Tewfick Pasha, but Aimée Delcassé, child of a dead Frenchman, inheritor of freedom, sold like any dancing girl.... And her own lips had assented.
And the bey had heard, of course, of the beauty of the pasha's daughter. Some cousin had babbled.... And undoubtedly the rumor of that beauty Tewfick Pasha received his inspiration upon the moment, but that was not gainsaying its truth had determined the bey to find some vulnerable hold. He was like that, a soft-voiced, sardonic devil!
Will you listen to me? "Useless, useless." He waved the handkerchief negligently at her. "I have had words enough. You are not the daughter of Tewfick Pasha you are his step-daughter your French family desires to capture you I know the rigmarole by heart, you observe.
McLean knew slightly Tewfick Pasha. He knew supremely the inviolable seclusion of a daughter of such a household. He knew the utter impossibility of any man's speech with her. Yet here was Ryder telling him Ryder's telling him was a sketchy performance. He mentioned the girl's appearance at the masquerade and their acquaintance. He touched lightly upon her attempted flight and his pursuit.
Unhesitatingly Ryder declared that he did. "Then you may inform the family," announced Tewfick, bristling, "that my daughter has been very well cared for all these years without advice from France."
"And yet alive to enjoy it," said Tewfick with smiling eyes. "An aged and dying woman," thrust in Ryder in haste. "Her only care now is to see her niece before she dies." "Ah!... But that could be arranged," said Tewfick amiably. "We have at once communicated with France," McLean told him, "but we came instantly to you, to, inform you " "A thousand thanks and a thousand!
Anything might be possible to Tewfick Pasha's eternally youthful enthusiasms.
Tewfick Pasha turned in his chair and cocked his eyes at this strange young man who had dropped from the blue with this extensive advice. He looked puzzled. This American fitted into no type of his acquaintance. He was so very young and slim and boyish ... with not at all the air of a legal representative.... But McLean's position vouched for him. "You speak for the French family, monsieur?"
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