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Whether it was the meat diet or the freedom, Tera could never make out, but, certain it was, that very soon, instead of consulting their mother and depending on her for everything, the cubs grew fierce and savage, and snarled whenever she came near them.
Tera looked on proudly, but at last insisted on their returning home. With her strong teeth and sickle-like claws she tore off pieces of meat, and each little cub, seizing a piece savagely in his mouth, trotted after its mother, who led the way straight back to their lair.
Having no ties or cares, she wandered farther afield, and finally made her home in another jungle. It was, she concluded, a much better jungle than the other; but the very first day she took up her quarters in it there was a great disturbance. From her hiding-place Tera peeped forth, and saw three or four huge elephants moving slowly towards her.
These Arabs are really more greedy and rapacious than the Touaricks. The difference is, the Arabs are near Tripoli, see Europeans, and learn to be more polite to us than the Touaricks can well be. A son of the Governor recited to me the following famous distich, begging me to tell him what it meant: "Tummora, tummora, tera, Buon giorno, buona sera."
"And please don't forget the Crab and grandmother, rashes, et ceterus," said the little girl. "Tera Corona," piped her brother. "I won't," said the Prophet. "I will not." And he tottered out of the room, carrying the Sagittarius letter in his hand. In the hall he paused for a moment, holding on to the balusters and re-reading his directions.
As for the people, they also were pleased, as they usually are when change or reform does not mean abolition of the old festivals, or of the washings, sousings, and fun at the tombs of their ancestors in the graveyards, or the merry-makings, or the pilgrimages, which are usually only other names for social recreation, and often for sensual debauch. Many a miya now became a tera.
When he had returned and resumed his seat, he went on: "That Jewel, with its mystic words, and which Queen Tera held under her hand in the sarcophagus, was to be an important factor probably the most important in the working out of the act of her resurrection. From the first I seemed by a sort of instinct to realise this.
When the cat saw his old enemy he struggled to get down; but Margaret held him fast and soothed him. I looked at my watch. It was close to eight. When Margaret was with us her father said directly, with a quiet insistence which was new to me: "You believe, Margaret, that Queen Tera has voluntarily undertaken to give up her freedom for this night?
"It is from a union of these various beliefs, and their natural corollaries, that I have come to the conclusion that Queen Tera expected to be able to effect her own resurrection, when, and where, and how, she would. That she may have held before her a definite time for making her effort is not only possible but likely. I shall not stop now to explain it, but shall enter upon the subject later on.
Had it not been for her cubs, Tera would have gone out in spite of all, for the noise was terrifying and bewildering, and she scarcely knew where she was or what she was doing. But she had her little ones to think of, and, at that moment, would rather have died than have left them. Her fur bristled up with rage, and she prepared to fight to the death.
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