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Updated: June 10, 2025
"He did it out of love and we must not chide him. But we have our own immortal souls to think of." The next morning two things happened. We gave Tufik one hundred and twenty dollars to buy a ticket back to Syria and to keep him in funds on the way. And Tish got a note from Hannah: Dear Miss Tish: I here you still have the dago or, as my sister's husband says, he still has you.
In my country many are shepherds. Perhaps some day you go with me back to my country, and we hear the shepherd call his sheep 'Ha! Hoo! Ta, Ta, Ta! and we hear the sleepy sheep reply: 'Maaaa!" "It is too beautiful!" murmured Aggie. "It is the Holy Land all over again! And we should never have known this but for you, Tufik!"
"When my three old women come back I eat you, skin and bones, and they shall say nothing! They love me Tufik! I am their child. Aye! And my child which comes will be their grandchild!" He kissed his fingers to the upper window which closed with a slam. Tufik stooped, picked up his suitcase, and saw the taxi for the first time.
Tufik did not understand, but he said it was harmless and given to all the Syrian babies; and while we were still undecided Aggie sniffed it. "It smells like paregoric, Tish," she said. "I'm sure it's harmless." We took it then. It tasted sweet and rather spicy, and Aggie said it stopped her sneezing at once. It was very mild and pleasant, and rather medicinal in its flavor.
But, for Heaven's sake, my respected but foolish virgins, why not an American that wants a real job? Why let a sticky Oriental pull your legs " "Charlie Sands!" cried Tish, rising in her wrath. "I will not endure such vulgarity. And when Tufik takes you out in a taxicab " "God forbid!" said Charlie Sands, and sat down to wait for Tufik's sister.
"That's that's really very nice of you," said Aggie. "I thank you." Tufik came over and stood beside her. "I give with my heart," he said shyly. "I have had nobody in all so large this country nobody! And now I have you!" Aggie saw but too late. He bent over and touched his lips to her hands.
She watched Tufik, chanting about the plains of Lebanon and shoving the carpet-sweeper with a bang against her best furniture; and, with Hannah's salad in mind, she sniffed a warning odor from the kitchen that told of more Syrian experiments with her digestion. Tish surrendered: that morning she wrote to Hannah that Tufik was going back to Syria, and to come and bring the salad recipe with her.
Tish and I rushed forward and commanded him to stand back; and Aggie, with more presence of mind than we had given her credit for, brought a glass containing a tablespoonful of blackberry cordial into which she had poured ten drops of seasickness remedy. Tufik was white and groaning, but he revived enough to sit up and stare at us with his sad brown eyes. "I wish to die!" he said brokenly.
"It's his last night," she said, "and he has promised not to smoke any cigarettes and I've given him two pepsin tablets. This is the land of the free, Lizzie." We were to meet Tufik at the station next morning and we arranged a lunch for him to eat on the train, Aggie bringing fried chicken and I sandwiches and cake.
And with that she fell to laughing awful laughter that mingled with the bride's cries and the wail of the pipes. The bride, after a struggle, was taken by force from the machine and placed on a chair against the wall. Her veil was torn and her wreath crooked, and she observed a sulky silence. To our amazement, Tufik was still smiling, urbane and cheerful.
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