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The seaman had found it necessary to take Rais into his confidence, and little Ziffa, in the exercise of her disgraceful vocation of eavesdropper, had overheard a little of their conversation about the Riminis. She did not, however, hear much, and, having no interest in the Riminis, forgot all about it.
After a few minutes' severe thought he awarded the diamond ring to the old servant, and the two hundred blows to the master as being a false accuser. The award having been given, the case was dismissed, and Hadji Baba went home with smarting soles, resolved to punish Ziffa severely. "Spare me!" said Ziffa, whimpering, when her father, seizing a rod, was about to begin.
We are sorry to have to record the fact that Ziffa was a bad child a particularly naughty little girl. She told lies, and was a little thief, besides being fond of that despicable habit styled eavesdropping. She listened behind doors and curtains and at key-holes without feeling a particle of shame!
But Betsy could not move him, much less pull him out, although heartily assisted by her daughter. "Run, Ziffa, run an' fetch men!" Ziffa ran like a hunted deer, so anxious was she for the deliverance of her Bible instructor. On turning sharp round a bend in the track, she plunged into the bosom of Ebony. "Ho! hi! busted I am; why, what's de matter, Ziffa? you travel like a cannon-ball!"
I knows it by de pig-sty close 'longside whar' de big grumper sow libs, dat Ziffa's so fond o' playin' wid. Ho! "You see de small leetil house. Dat's it. Dat's whar' Ziffa lubs to play, but she'll hab you to play wid soon, an' den she'll forsake de ole sow. Ho! but I forgit you no understan' English."
Here Rais Ali described, with much elaboration, the exact position of the new hole to which the Rimini family had removed, at the head of Frais Vallon, and Mademoiselle Ziffa drank it all in with the most exuberant satisfaction. Shortly afterwards Agnes Langley found her friend hiding close to the spot in the garden where she had last seen her.
"Don't go so deep agin, Ziffa," said the mother, with a gasp, as she set her little one down on the sand. "No, musser," said the obedient child; and she kept on the landward side of her parent thereafter with demonstrative care.
Hadji Baba was very fond of this ring, as it had been a gift to him from Achmet, his former master, and he never went abroad without it, but a hasty summons to the palace had, on this occasion, caused him to forget it. As it was made for the little finger of Hadji Baba, which was remarkably thin, it exactly fitted the middle finger of Ziffa which was uncommonly fat.
When Flaggan had varied his remarks once or twice, by way of translating them, Rais Ali shook his head. "That bad," said he, "ver' bad. We mus' be tremendous cautious. Ziffa's a little brute." "Ha!" thought Ziffa. "You don't say so?" observed Flaggan. "Well, now, I'd scarce have thought we had reason to be so fearful of a small thing, with a stupid brown face like that."
This caused the matter to be widely talked about, and among others who heard of the proclamation was a little Moorish girl named Ziffa. Now this Ziffa was the only daughter of Hadji Baba, the Court story-teller, who, like the Vicar of Bray, managed to remain in office, no matter who should come into or go out of power.
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