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176 moustapha's house.
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thumps which would have done credit to Cerberus in a passion , an < made us nervouslspeculate on the thickness of the plank . Thes _<
more fierce ferocious Arab . watch than - y _dogs any are thing as wild we see as , their of human masters kind , and , being considerabl _undei _y
protection of the French garrison . Inside the court of Moustapha ' s house it was a pretty peaceful
scene—five women sitting in the sunshine , their dark hair and eyes sitting Mo and ustap gay on ha dresses the ' s wife ground in , an relief old icking on woman the some white with kind a walls of withered grain . Firstl and wrinkled y spreading , there face was it ,
on out her to dry other . Near side her the was p handsome a plain young married woman daughter , wife of to Moustap a son ; and ha ,
little Fatma her child , and a step-daughter of seventeen or eighteen . All these faces were intelligentfar more so than those of other
families I have seen ; but the secluded , position of the house gives a sort of country freedom to the manners and appearance of the
inmates . The old woman went on picking her grain ; the rest sat in a semicircle on the stone steps of the courtwhile Mohammed
, took his orders about the brackets , likewise familiarly seated by our sideand about as different in breeding and bearing from an English
trade , sman as can be imagined . Mohammed is at least twenty years older than his handsome wife ; he has a grizzled beard and and is
small vivid eyes , full of acuteness . He wears a turban , profuse in his civilities . Meantime the ladies were busy examining our personal ornamentsalways the first object of attraction .
Suddenly I bethought me that , I was sitting on a wonderful , and probably to them an entirely unknown phenomenon—one which would be
boug highl ht y promotive in Piccadilly of . intercours I took it it out up e , b with unscrewed y gesticulations imm it , flattened —an air it , - shook cushion sat it
in their facesand then blew ense parade . I again down upon it , with vivid demonstrations of satisfaction . The Arab ladies cried out with delight , and Mohammed was so gratified by our
mutual cordiality , that nothing would satisfy him but our each pot as takin a , and child g a admini spoonful is dosed stered of with jam it himself . He berry darted with preserve his into own the after wrinkled house rhub , arb broug hands . The ht , out jam just a
rasp was of some kind of plum , and was very g * ood ; as to the mode of helping , it could not be helped ! When old wife we rose to go her , everybody
> shook our hands , and Moustapha ' s expressed feelings ducted strongly us in with perfectl statel y y unint courtesy elligible to the Arabic boundaries , while of Mohammed his domain , con and - oken with
there said farewell in French , which language he had _sj ) brackets indifferent came facilit in y due during time , our painted visit . with I have most onl unbotanical y to add that flowers the , with
am They red bound upon look a to charmin blue confess ground g that nailed , in and any up extensivel against ordinary a y furnished whitewashed picked out room wall they g ; ilding but could I . - but not d 1
not lay claim to the praise of being _" neat , gauy "
176 Moustapha's House.
176 moustapha ' s house .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/32/
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