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Finally she asked me whether I carried good poison in my chest of medicines, and I told her I had some that could reach down to hell and kill the ifrits. "Wallah!" she answered. "If you two eunuchs hadn't lost that prisoner we could have tested some of it on him!" After that she dismissed me, I suppose that she might meditate on poison in the moonlight.
"You should have let us shoot, Jimgrim! Once I got close enough to have cut his beast's legs with my sword! You think this is like the city, where a policeman holds up a hand and men halt? Hah! Wallah! It was he who drew sword, and behold my camel's nose where he slashed at it!
The heat of the night is ominously suggestive of shed's popularly conceived temperature, and, in the absence of the customary punkah and nodding, see-sawing wallah, a villager is employed to sit beside my charpoy and agitate the air immediately about my head with a big palm-leaf fan.
"So you hope to find a wife in Damascus?" "Inshallah," Jeremy answered piously. "Well, I will find you a good-looking girl for wife, provided you first prove that you will make a good son-in-law. I take men as I find them, not as they represent themselves. He who wishes for the fire must first chop wood. You understand me?" "Wallah! I can chop wood like an axe with two heads.
The Compass Wallah in question we found quite a wild man of the mountains; his face, from changes of heat and cold and long exposure, was burnt and blistered into all sorts of colours, and, to make his appearance more generally striking, he wore as head-dress, a flyaway, puggery, or turban of blue cotton, of the most voluminous dimensions and wonderful construction imaginable.
"Allah wakbar God is everywhere! It was your talleh your destiny, Huckaback." "It was his kismet his fate, your sublime highness," rejoined Mustapha, "that he should go through those perils to amuse your leisure hours." "Wallah Thaib well said, by Allah! Let the slave rejoice in our bounty. Give him ten pieces of gold; we will open our ears to his next voyage to-morrow.
There are few who hold the reins of happenings as I do." "If they'd killed you they'd have stopped the clock, eh?" "That is as Allah may determine. I am not dead." "Have you friends in Jerusalem?" "Surely." "Strange that they haven't been to see you." "Wallah! Not strange at all." "I see. They regard you as a man without authority, who might make trouble and leave other men to face it, eh?"
"It has always been a mystery to me what poor Fanny Russell could see to care for, or to do anything save laugh at, in Cyril Carey. I hope the elderly 'competition wallah, or commissioner, or whatever he is, whom she is going to marry, has more sense as well as more money.
But on my right hand at the same dinner-party there sat a guest who was to mean a good deal more to me personally than Doctor Lushington young Mr. George Otto Trevelyan, as he then was, Lord Macaulay's nephew, already the brilliant author of A Competition Wallah, Ladies in Parliament, and much else. We little thought, as we talked, that after thirty-five years his son was to marry my daughter.
Also a friend of mine." "Oh! An Amirikani? A hakim?" "No. Not a doctor. Not a man to fear. He is a friend of Feisul." "On whose word?" "Mine," Grim answered. Sidi bin Tagim nodded. He seemed willing to take Grim's word for anything. "Why did you say a Jew stabbed you?" Grim asked suddenly. "So that they might hang a Jew or two. Wallah! Are the Jews not at the bottom of all trouble?
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