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13665Some one''s out of luck,said I to the driver;"whose roll is it?"
13665He''s at Moascar, is n''t he?"
13665I remember well when I inquired at the Australian headquarters in Cairo how the man I asked turned to a comrade and said:"Say, where''s''Banjo''now?
13665Who goes there?"
17150Brothel(?).
17150If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before the breach and bury him in it(?).
17150If a man has hired a( boat?)
17150If he has hired a calf( goat?
17150Merchant, trader, relations with agent, 100- 107. official(?
17150Strength of a man, crown of the head(?
17150scale fixed by king, 44, 51. wages fixed for-- boatman, 6_ GUR_ of corn_ per annum_, 239. working ox, 4,,,, 242. cow in milk,(?)
18031And what is that tower?
18031What is that thing,I asked,"that looks like a ruined castle on the Rhine?"
18031What race are these men?
18031How came the change and how can such a network of channels have ceased to work entirely?
18031How many times has a sketch done in a failing light looked strong in tone, only to go to pieces when seen under normal conditions?
18031Was this the Venice of the East, this squalid place beside soup- coloured waters?
18031Was this the city that reveals the past splendours of Haroun Alraschid as Venice reveals the golden age of Titian and the Doges?
18031Will this country again become one of the granaries of the world, and will it ever be, like Egypt, an important asset of our Empire?
17584And what power of Government will be left to Turkey after the war?
17584Are you at liberty to tell me whether there is already an understanding with Russia about this country, and if so how far it goes?
17584But what does it all lead to?
17584Do they get right back to Germany before daylight?
17584Harris said"I do: is he dead?"
17584How could I equal this for instance"The Bible says this is a land of milk and honey there is plenty of water and dust about if that s what they mean?"
17584I enclose an extract from a speech which might have been made by you, but was made by-- who do you think?
17584Lord, how long Shall Satan in high places lead the blind To battle for the passions of the strong?
17584Not very interesting is it?
17584The most celebrated thing in it is the story of Cupid and Psyche: did n''t Correggio paint it round the walls of a palace in Rome?
17584They have still a little snow( did I mention that the storm which gave us rain at A. had capped these hills with a fine snow mantle?)
17584What has happened so far?
17584What will Turkey be like?
17584Why?
17584at Quetta had merely passed down the line asking each man"Are you fit?"
22103Any news this morning?
22103How can I order the Regiment to retire?
22103Which?
22103''Who are you?''
22103And of those who have seen the vision, how many have wondered from which gate the dream has issued, and how many have been filled with confidence?
22103At breakfast the next morning remarking on the bombardment I was asked"which"?
22103Besides, was not Townshend and his gallant force in danger in Kut?
22103For to how many during the past two years has not flashed the dream of the capture of this city, Dar- al- Salam, the City of Security?
22103I replied,"why last night''s of course,""Yes, but the first or second?"
22103Is it any wonder, under those circumstances, that no one was downhearted?
22103On the great Bronze Gong of one of our Battalions is engraved"I mark the hours, Do you?"
22103What dream was it of a captured city, of a City of Security, that lured them to their doom, and who was the first dreamer?
22103What is the secret, whence comes this spirit, of the wave of bravery that seizes soldiers at these great moments?
22103Who would detect him?
19379''And if it''s the four thousand and thirty- two guns?''
19379''Did you fire back?''
19379''Where''ve you been, padre?
19379And he was returned question for question, with''Why do you keep laughing at me with those big, blue eyes?''
19379As a Marian martyr observed to an enthusiast who thrust a blazing furze- bush into his face,''Friend, have I not harm enough?
19379But who was going to connect the rare reference to''Midlanders''with the Leicestershires?
19379Did he not wear a medal for those days?
19379Fowke asked the wastes in a soaring falsetto,''Why do the heathen rage?''
19379General Davies came up and asked,''Have the Leicesters taken any prisoners?''
19379Has the padre put in services?''
19379How can the nerves and trembling thought bear up?
19379I asked Knott the question of questions,''What are our casualties?''
19379Much later, when I had managed to get transport to push him away, I asked him,''Got your stick, G.A.?''
19379The old question was raised, Did the Turk dig graves beforehand, against an action, to hide his losses?
19379Then some one asked,''But what did you hear about our casualties?''
19379This feeling was shared, for when the staff- captain and signalling- officer joined us, the latter asked,''Is n''t this spot a bit unhealthy, sir?''
19379What need of that?''
19379What were your casualties?''
19379What''s the news?''
19379Why should John lie doggo in this fashion?
7096And never again rise up to all eternity?
7096How is it possible for me to keep silence about it? 7096 How then, Gilgamish, wilt thou be able to cross the sea?
7096My heart sad, my form dejected?
7096The hero Shamash( the Sun- god) hath indeed crossed the sea, but who besides him could do so? 7096 Thou starest out blankly(?)
7096What is the description thereof? 7096 What kind of a being hath escaped with his life?
7096When thou arrivest at the Waters of Death what wilt thou do?
7096Why are thy cheeks wasted? 7096 Why is there lamentation in thy heart?"
7096[ O] Sabîtu, which is the way to Uta- Napishtim? 7096 ... the prince(?) 7096 And said unto the warrior Enlil( Bêl): 178. Who besides the god Ea can make a plan? 7096 Anu created the fire- breathing(?) 7096 As he went about he thought to himself,I myself shall die, and shall not I then be as Enkidu?
7096But what shall I say to the town, to the multitude, and to the elders?"
7096Having asked the Deity, whither he was to sail?
7096He says,"What lover didst thou love for long?
7096How couldst thou, not accepting counsel, make a cyclone?
7096How is it possible for me to cry out[ the story of] it?
7096How then wast thou able to enter the company of the gods and see life?"
7096I covered(?)
7096I measured out the hull thereof and marked it out(?)
7096That they might fill the sea like little fishes?"
7096Under them I piled reeds, cedarwood and myrtle(?).
7096When Gilgamish asked:"Who is splendid among men?
7096Which of thy shepherds flourished?
7096Who is glorious among heroes?"
28072[ 35] How far did that diversity go? 28072 ***** When we attempt to mount the stream of history and to pierce the mists which become ever thicker as we near its source, what is it that we see? 28072 350- 3(?). 28072 Again, is not the building on the left of the picture obviously a flat- roofed house? 28072 And is not that enough to suggest a probable reason for the want of windows characteristic of an Oriental dwelling? 28072 And may not these groups, though distinct, have been more closely connected than the Jews were willing to admit? 28072 Are they ideographic signs or funeral offerings? 28072 But how to represent the wooded mountains on this side of the water? 28072 Can any other instance be cited of an art so well endowed entirely suppressing what we should call the civil element of life? 28072 Granting wooden roofs, how is such an accumulation to be accounted for? 28072 How many stages were there? 28072 In the case of vaults how are we to suppose that the rooms were lighted? 28072 Is it too much to suppose that by means of rivers and canals those of Nineveh may have been taken there too? 28072 M. Halévy has translated an Assyrian text, whose meaning he thus epitomizes:What becomes of the individual deposited in a tomb?
28072Must they not have trembled for the security of tombs surrounded by a rebellious and angry populace?
28072Must we believe that it was never finished or used?
28072Must we conclude that stone columns were unknown in Chaldæa and Assyria?
28072Must we take it to be the plan of his royal city as a whole, or only of his palace?
28072Nineveh,"the dwelling of the lions,""the bloody city,"saw its last day;"Nineveh is laid waste,"says the prophet Nahum,"who will bemoan her?
28072Supposing such an arrangement to have obtained in Mesopotamia, of what material were the piers or columns composed?
28072Was it impelled by mere inability to distinguish, by varieties of feature, form and attitude, between the different gods created by the imagination?
28072Was it the same in Chaldæa?
28072What then were we to make of these arched blocks, also coated with stucco, but found in the centre of the rooms and far away from the walls?
28072What, it is asked, do these men want with light?
28072When wooden roofs were used were they upheld by wooden uprights or by columns of any other material?
28072Why did art, in creating divine types, give such prominence to features borrowed from the lower animals?
28072Why is it that such works have perished and left no sign?
28072Why were these battlements given a height beyond those of the royal palace?
28072[ 325]?--ED.
28072[ 420] What then did the Assyrians do with their dead?
29631Yet,he said"you had mercy upon me, and cured me and my daughter( who also had had the plague), and why?
29631Am I to remain under the ministry of such a teacher?
29631And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me?
29631And had we gone, what a state should we have been in?
29631And yet, in truth, how are they inconsistent with the universal love of God and propitiation of Christ?
29631Are they wiser than our Bishops and ancient fathers, that we should reject what they introduced?"
29631But were not the Scribes and Pharisees in many things ignorant and unsound?
29631But why set up one set of worms and their conduct against another set of worms and theirs, when we have the record of God in our hands?
29631By presumptuous confidence?
29631Do you not praise God for these dear brothers and sisters he has given us?
29631Does not Paul say, Who is Paul or Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believe?
29631From such men, what can you expect?
29631He added,"Did you ever see me before I came about my leg?"
29631How?
29631I fear this is ominous, for if ransom is what the Yezidees want, would they not have contrived to forward some notice to Bagdad?
29631If it does but lead to my Lord''s glory, I am sure it will lead to my dear sufferer''s; then why should I repine?
29631Is it a principle antecedent and necessary to faith?
29631Is it ever in the sense of presumptuous confidence?
29631Is it in the mode of appointment of Bishops?
29631Is it in the mode of appointment to the cure of souls?
29631Is it the Liturgy?
29631Is it, that men have life in them_ first_, to capacitate them to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man?
29631Is spirit and life in men first from another source, and then do they take and profit by his words?
29631Is there, then, no need for regeneration?
29631John, in like manner, tells us, that"whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world,"and if we ask, what is born of God?
29631Lord, I desire so to do; for he is a dear and kind father, though_ nature_ can not always see it, and indeed how could this be?
29631No-- but by saying he hath given bread, but_ can he give meat_ also?
29631Now, where is this written?
29631Oh, when will the Lord come to put an end to these scenes of disorder, physical as well as moral?
29631On the other hand, what example does he give if he quit this, which may be granted on all hands to be an unsound ministry, for a sound one?
29631Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it,"What makest thou?"
29631She constantly exclaimed, as we walked on the roof of our house[32] of an evening,"When will he come?"
29631Surely the judgment of the Lord is on this land?
29631Therefore he said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
29631They immediately began with saying,"What does this infidel with arms?
29631What, indeed, is meant to be asserted?
29631What, then, is the Church of England, or Scotland, or the Dissenters, but various ministries, by which we believe?
29631When day by day I rise and see our numbers complete, and all in health, my soul is indeed made to feel what can not the Lord do?
29631When the sceptical Sadducees and the Pharisees, sought a sign it was to try him, can he do it?
29631Where then does this apostolic similarity dwell, and in what does it consist?
29631Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
29631Will he kill Moslems?"
29631With them what can you do?
29631Would this contain even an insinuation, that they were the exclusive objects of his disinterested ardour?
29631Yes, truly; but were these the things of which the Lord said expressly, these things observe and do?
29631[ 39] By whom authorised, of God or of man?
29631[ 6] And yet what security is afforded by a present abatement of the visitation?
29631had not Moses respect unto the recompense of reward; and in all the 11th of the Hebrews, where is this abstraction held up?
29631indeed, what part of it so peculiarly his own, as to love his neighbour as himself?
29631then, what might be expected if we had been strong in the Lord and in the power of his might?
29631will you give it to these infidels before us?"
38714A company of infantry with a machine- gun, assisted by Halil''s horde, will no doubt suffice?
38714A new apprentice, barber?
38714A prisoner?
38714And how did you get out?
38714And if I am not? 38714 And it falls upon you to count all these things?
38714And what of our big push, sir?
38714And why is he too not in the army?
38714Answer my question: what have you done since you left the barber?
38714Are you indeed the man who saved Rejeb out of the hand of Halil''s creatures?--the man whom our chief bade us hold in honour?
38714But what will it profit?
38714But where to? 38714 Did not my heart tell me you were not as you seemed?"
38714Did they put up a fight, sir?
38714Have you no eyes, foolish one?
38714He has a straight back, Allah be praised,said the barber,"but what is that?
38714He will understand that Rejeb is waiting to hear whether he may expect help? 38714 How did you know?"
38714How long would it take you to patch up sufficiently to get us back?
38714If I am thus employed, how can I accompany you in your goings to and fro, and accompany you I must, for your own safety?
38714Is it for servants to know their master''s business?
38714Is it good news, my brother?
38714May not my hands now be unbound?
38714Might they not construct a raft on which to convey it on the stream itself?
38714Say you so? 38714 The machine''s all right?"
38714Then will you fly a few miles northward, say as far as the_ tell_, and see what the beggars are up to? 38714 These ruins the Turks must pass on their way; shall we not then ride directly thither, and there lie in wait?"
38714We''ll do it, then?
38714What about non- combatants?
38714What are you? 38714 What can you do?"
38714What did I say, Aga?
38714What evil destiny brought you before my eyes? 38714 What for?"
38714What harm has befallen you?
38714What if you are some paltry horse- thief that has taken the name of Yusuf the boatman with some evil design? 38714 What is that sound, brother?"
38714What is that?
38714What is to become of you, Aga? 38714 What is your name, whence do you come, and on what errand?"
38714What need? 38714 What was that?"
38714What? 38714 What?"
38714Where did you steal it?
38714Where in the swamps would they find wood? 38714 Where is your apprentice?"
38714Who am I that I should offer counsel?
38714Who can tell the future?
38714Who knows whether there will be such a chance?
38714Who then are you?
38714Why wait for the guns?
38714Will you not take a larger force?
38714Will you send out men to bring them in?
38714You are no boatman?
38714You ca n''t fly, then?
38714You left Firouz Ali: what are you doing here?
38714You smell the oil of lavender? 38714 You will not go alone?"
38714Your father''s son must always be welcome,he said,"but what of prudence?
38714Your name?
38714A crate had fallen: what was that to him?
38714Am I a child?
38714An aeroplane was approaching: was it friend or foe?
38714And here, effendi, is a bottle of my famous lotion-- a small token of my gratitude, but in truth what can a man give better than his best?"
38714And was I not honoured in bedewing your own matchless locks with my sweet- savoured essences?
38714Any messages for headquarters?"
38714Are you badly hurt?"
38714Ass- head I am, but my legs-- are not they the legs of a man?
38714But how could an attack be made?
38714But how is it at the end of the day?
38714But surely your life was not in danger?"
38714But what can we do?
38714But what is this?
38714But who can strive against Fate?
38714By the tomb of my father, what should he do in the army?
38714CHAPTER IX FRIENDS OR FOES?
38714Can your Arab friend stick it for a week or two without help?"
38714Could he discover the stronghold, leave the horse in Rejeb''s care, and yet keep his appointment with Captain Ellingford?
38714Could you not trust me to bring us both safely away?
38714D''you know what this here thing reminds me of?"
38714Did he not break my best basin into a thousand and one fragments?"
38714Did the man reach you?"
38714Did you not perceive his sulkiness, and the sparkle of some thought in his eye?
38714Did you not see him pass out, rubbing his pumpkin pate?"
38714Do not I ask myself that question twenty times a day?
38714Do you know such a place?"
38714For what purpose did the Turks require petrol?
38714Further if by good luck he should meet Captain Ellingford-- and that was now doubtful-- what could he do with the horse then?
38714Had he been seen in spite of all his caution?
38714He was not content with knowing that killing was his duty: he felt bound to go a step farther back, and ask himself, was his duty right?
38714He was standing beside Jackson, who had just set up the machine- gun, when the man suddenly swung round, exclaiming:"Hear that hum, sir?"
38714How many are these Turks?"
38714How should they keep pace with the legs of these mules?"
38714How was he to achieve it?
38714How would the Arabs, wearied by exertions unfamiliar to them, suffering from scarcity of food, endure the shock and strain of the crisis?
38714If things go ill, where is the misbegotten dog of a non- commissioned officer who is to blame?"
38714Is Ellingford well enough to fly?"
38714Is it a time for questions?
38714Is it not a necessary virtue?
38714Is it not because they know that my people hate the Turks, and will lend assistance to all who are the Turk''s enemies?
38714Is it not known far and wide that the illustrious Bukkad Bey has entrusted to me his noble chin?
38714Is it not my business to know?"
38714Is it not wise to seize any chance of keeping them at a distance?"
38714Is not his name Bukkad Bey?"
38714Is not the aroma fragrant as the gardens of the Prophet?
38714Moreover, is there not great danger in the handling of them?
38714No doubt they can be got away by the route you followed?"
38714Now and again he found himself asking,"Why do n''t they come?"
38714Now, as to this fastness-- you have a map?
38714Now, what about ammunition?"
38714On the other hand, if the machine was piloted by the captain, why had he alighted so far from his destination?
38714Rejeb''s men were accustomed to go forth on their forays by night: was this a foraging party from the stronghold, or a hostile band?
38714Shall I have more dealings with a shaving- brush?"
38714Shall I speak twice?"
38714Shall it be told that an Arab of Rejeb''s tribe is not equal to a dog of a Turk?
38714Shall we say a month from to- day?
38714Should he stampede them?
38714Surely he had counted six before?
38714That you are Firouz Ali the barber I know, and that you have shaved Bukkad Bey and shampooed me; but who is this?
38714The newcomer sat himself down on a stool, and the barber went on:"Said I not truly?
38714The situation of the fastness is described as a long march south of the_ tell_ of-- what is the name, major?"
38714These Turks are a reconnoitring patrol of a larger force----""What?"
38714Was he the victim suddenly of the airman''s chief foe, engine trouble?
38714What could he do?
38714What had remotest antiquity to do with this symbol of modernity, the last word in scientific invention in a world of scientific marvels?
38714What if they slept in turn, leaving one always on guard?
38714What if we should steal away by night?
38714What is his offence, I pray you?"
38714What is that to you if I am a friend?"
38714What is this?"
38714What need to hide in the very chamber of the foe?
38714What should he reply?
38714What sort of reception shall we get there?"
38714What then could be done?
38714What would be their next move?
38714Where are his wits?
38714Where did your Arab friends spring from?"
38714Where were the others?
38714Where would you locate it on the map?"
38714Where''s Ellingford?"
38714Wherefore then is he in your company, his raiment changed?"
38714Who can bear witness better than you that I am Firouz Ali, the barber of Bagdad, the maker of sweet scents and famous lotions?
38714Who can tell?
38714Who is to lead my people if the Turkish dogs attack?"
38714Whose hand is more cunning than Firouz Ali''s?
38714Why are you wandering here alone?"
38714Why in the softness of my heart did I have pity on you, poor fool, and hire you to be my helper?
38714Why should not the barber make capital of his summons to Burckhardt?
38714Why was not the prisoner following him?
38714Will he repay me for all my pains in training him to my honourable craft?
38714Wish you was at Brighton, Bill?"
38714Would it be possible to elude them?
38714Would the Arabs''resolution stand the test of gun fire?
38714Would the British relief force arrive during that time?
38714Would they be able to ride him down?
38714Would they halt at the_ tell_, or, late as the hour was, continue their march to Rejeb''s stronghold?
38714Would you shame me before the very face of his excellency?
38714Would you take away my good name, and cause it to be spread abroad throughout the world that Firouz Ali is the uncle of an ass?
38714[ Illustration: MAJOR BURCKHARDT IS DISTURBED]"What-- what is happening?"
38714was it not well done?"
38714were it not better to take repose and refresh yourself for what the morrow may bring forth?"
35615And after that?
35615And what about the numbers 3 and 5?
35615And where now is this accursed serpent belt?
35615And you put them all to flight?
35615And you would remain here for so long?
35615Are you sorry that you came?
35615Are you sure that he is an Englishman? 35615 Are you, then, Faris''s son?"
35615Brother,I said,"have you so soon forgotten me?"
35615But how,I asked,"did Shahzadi''s shoe become the talisman of the Muntafik?"
35615But suppose it does not come off, what is going to happen? 35615 But tell me some of the strange things that this golden belt has done?"
35615But tell me, did the seer bring the belt to the appointed place?
35615But what about our old friends, the sheik and Sedjur?
35615But what shall we do with the sick stranger?
35615But why are you so anxious to find me?
35615But,I inquired,"had the Ingleezee 5000 kerans with him, so that he might purchase the belt?"
35615Can he possibly pull round?
35615Can you read German?
35615Could not we break through the wall,I asked,"and so escape?"
35615Could you possibly conceive,he blurted out,"that the world could contain such a pack of bigoted idiots?
35615Did he not give you any other message?
35615Did he?
35615Did you not know,I asked,"why he came with your sheik from Kerbela?"
35615Do n''t you believe it,said I,"what sort of a person do you take me for?
35615Do you not now possess it?
35615Do you not remember what was written in the paper which you read to me? 35615 Do you suppose,"I asked him at last,"that they have been giving him your medicine properly?"
35615Do you think I did right,I asked, when I had finished,"in making a clean breast of everything?"
35615Do you understand?
35615Do you want anything?
35615Fool,said he,"would you murder a priest in the presence of his goddess, in her own temple?
35615Has it ever struck you, sir,I said,"that our friend Edwards is a little bit afraid of it?"
35615Have I not sworn by Allah?
35615Have n''t you forgotten that miserable bauble?
35615Have n''t you opened the box since then?
35615Have you considered,continued the Governor,"what has resulted from your headstrong behaviour?
35615Have you ever left your watch lying about?
35615Have you such a poor opinion of us town- dwellers, then?
35615Have you turned woman? 35615 Have you, then, secured it?"
35615How do you know this?
35615How far is it to the city?
35615How know you?
35615How long ago did he die?
35615How long, Effendi, have you been in Hillah?
35615How many days in your boat?
35615How many do you want?
35615How many kerans did you say, Beg?
35615How many of the accursed robbers did you say you encountered at Babil the day before yesterday, father?
35615How much farther have we to go?
35615How shall you start the subject?
35615How so?
35615How think you we shall walk through that waterless waste, when even to ride through it is courting death?
35615How, in heaven''s name, did you get here?
35615I must get hold of him somehow,I said;"what do you think I had better do?"
35615If,I said, addressing Haroun,"we accept the Governor''s suggestion, will he then send an envoy and sue for peace?"
35615Is it still safe and sound?
35615Is n''t it enough?
35615Is not the safe itself made of iron? 35615 Is that all?"
35615Is that all?
35615Is this really the seer of whom you told me,I whispered to Faris,"and the same that we thought had perished in the fire?"
35615Know you,said the first Arab,"that your illness cost us the life of our sheik, Abbas- ibn- Rashid, who was ever your friend?"
35615Let us take the way that we came, and retrace our steps out of these underground dungeons; or shall we cast lots as to the road we shall follow?
35615Master,said the man, as he drew near,"it is you who were with Sheik Faris in the desert; is it not so?"
35615My poor friend,I said,"how_ could_ you have come to this?"
35615Naturally,said I,"who else will make the post mortem?"
35615Not very cheerful, is it?
35615Of what mare?
35615Shall we ride back to camp?
35615Sheik Faris,I asked,"sent, by you, nothing for me?"
35615Sheik,I said in a low voice, hardly daring to break the silence,"what was it?"
35615Sheik,I whispered, fearing to speak aloud,"do you know which way to take?"
35615Then what do you wish to do with him?
35615Then what is it that you wish to say?
35615Then why,I asked,"have you now come to Baghdad to seek him?
35615Then you saw all?
35615Then,said Daud,"you know not that that Ingleezee is dead?"
35615Well, Hussein, what is the news?
35615Well, Walter,said my uncle, after we had recovered from the excitement of our first meeting,"is your golden treasure still safe and sound?"
35615Well, now, Sheik of Sheiks,I said, after we had settled down to our pipes in private,"what news of the serpent belt?"
35615Well, what is the matter with the poor little chap?
35615Well, which way shall we go?
35615Well,I asked at last,"what do you propose that we shall do?"
35615Well,said Edwards, after I had given him the sheik''s account of the mysterious girdle,"what is your programme now?
35615Well,said Edwards, anxiously, when I had finished reading,"what do you think?"
35615Well,said I,"shall we go and suggest that we would like to go off to Baghdad at once, without waiting to go to Meshed Ali?"
35615What age do you suppose this Faris to be?
35615What are all these tents?
35615What are we going to do?
35615What are you going to do?
35615What became of the boatman who brought me down here, and saved my life?
35615What bill?
35615What can we do?
35615What do you imagine that Faris and Sedjur are doing here?
35615What do you suppose is going to happen to us?
35615What earthly good would it do? 35615 What else can we do?"
35615What harm would it do my friend,asked Edwards,"were you to proclaim that you saw him at Katib?
35615What has been going on, then?
35615What is it that has happened?
35615What is it that has happened?
35615What is it, my friend,he asked,"that you wish to say?"
35615What is it?
35615What is the matter, Haroun?
35615What is the matter, old man?
35615What is the matter?
35615What manner of man,I asked,"is that Ingleezee?"
35615What matter does it make,said I,"by whom the horse was stolen?
35615What on earth for?
35615What on earth is the matter?
35615What possible good do you think you can do him?
35615What situation?
35615What sort of lock have you got on the box?
35615What thought you of the horse you have been riding?
35615What was it like?
35615What were they?
35615What will the Governor do?
35615What, Abbas- ibn- Rashid?
35615What, my brother Faris?
35615When will you start?
35615When, sheik,he asked, addressing Faris,"do you propose to quit Baghdad?"
35615Where are our horses?
35615Where are you?
35615Where is Dimitri Sahib?
35615Where is the letter?
35615Where is your village?
35615Where on earth have they gone?
35615Where then is the sheik, your father?
35615Where to?
35615Which way?
35615Who are ye who speak thus lightly?
35615Who is he?
35615Who was it, then,I asked,"who lowered me into the well, from which I recovered the Girdle?
35615Who was it?
35615Why did they bother to bring_ us_?
35615Why did you not tell this to your captors when you were taken?
35615Why is it,I asked,"that you will never speak about my Girdle?"
35615Why should your people wish to keep in such a place so unimportant a thing as the shoe of one of our mares? 35615 Why was not the Ingleezee to take the belt?"
35615Why, then,I asked,"since you believed me to be dead, should you have taken any further trouble about Mersina and the Girdle?"
35615Why?
35615Will you allow us the night to decide?
35615Will you take me there?
35615Would you like to read it?
35615You are very silent,said the captain, after a long pause in the conversation,"are you getting sleepy?"
35615You do not mean to say,said I,"that you propose rushing back to Baghdad?"
35615You secured no booty, then?
35615You will not chuck him over until after the fight, will you?
35615And was it a mere coincidence that Shahzadi''s shoe had at first 3 nail- holes on either side, and then 8 nail- holes altogether?"
35615And we have returned; what more can they want?
35615And who was the man whom I saw lying dead among the rocks?"
35615Answer me yet again, did you meet any Bedouins as you rode hither?"
35615Are you on for it?"
35615But how was I to reach my goal?
35615But now tell me, was it indeed an accident that brought you and your friend the Hakim to our tents?"
35615But what will he do with it?"
35615But why do you ask?"
35615But your friend thinks that the evil spirit which was in the Girdle has now flown, does he not?"
35615But, tell me, how far have we yet to go?
35615By whom was it stolen?"
35615Can he be the writer of that note?"
35615Can it be possible that he was escaping with the serpent belt?
35615Can you yourself think of any plan by which they may be removed?"
35615Can you, with all your knowledge of magic, say why fire suddenly issued from the ground and destroyed the inmates of that chamber?"
35615Come, Daud, do you understand my meaning?"
35615Come, Hakim, my honoured guest, buckle on the belt, and end the trouble; otherwise, who knows?
35615Could I possibly obtain it?
35615Could it be that the seer had become mad?
35615Do these also go to the big house where the horse- shoe is?"
35615Do you imagine that you are capable of combating all the evil that fell on every man who ever touched the dreaded thing?
35615Do you see the luminous paint?
35615Do you see them?"
35615Do you suppose I have been looking at this compass of mine ever since we left the guide simply to amuse myself?
35615Do you suppose we shall be able to take him to Baghdad with us?"
35615Do you suppose your Western magic to be more powerful than that of the East?
35615Do you think I might?"
35615Do you think that Henderson ought to sit up so late?"
35615Do you wish to show mercy to your bitterest foe?"
35615Eh, Henderson?"
35615Had all this been brought about by the goddess Sophana, wrathful at my desire to possess her sacred girdle?
35615Have I lived another life, in another world?
35615Have you brought Shahzadi''s shoe?"
35615How are you feeling after that awful jolting?"
35615How did you meet with him?"
35615How did you succeed in carrying off that serpent belt?"
35615How do you feel now?"
35615How do you imagine that anyone is going to squeeze a paltry thousand pounds, or even a hundred pounds, out of two such paupers as you and me?
35615How do you, an Ingleezee, know of such matters as these?
35615How was it that you let go the rope?
35615How, then, is it possible for me to agree to your proposals?"
35615I answered,"have you no soul?
35615I can not even see the soldiers, can you?"
35615I replied in astonishment,"why should you think that he has died?"
35615If so, how comes it that you yourself practise medicine?"
35615Is he all right otherwise?"
35615Is it not positively sickening?"
35615Know you not, sheik, that these very Shammar extended to me full hospitality?
35615May he not be a native of some other country of Europe?"
35615Shall I be expected to be present?"
35615Shall we leave them, and abandon our search?"
35615Shall we, then, fix a day for your departure?"
35615She would have lost the services of a hundred trained fighting men, and who would be left to repel the eventual attack on the town?"
35615Should I also go mad from having worn it?
35615Should I leave it there?
35615Tell me, do the people who live in the big house keep all they possess for ever?"
35615Tell me, from which direction did you ride hither?"
35615Then where would Adiba be?
35615Was I another Mazeppa?
35615Was I to be thus carried about the desert until death came to my relief?
35615Was I to start again on another interminable ride?
35615Was it not so?"
35615Well, sheik, what have you got to tell us?"
35615Were you also trussed up on the side of a camel?"
35615What are we going to do?"
35615What became of the robbers who left the two merchants naked in the desert, and what became of the merchants?"
35615What have you done with the other?"
35615What have you to answer on that count?"
35615What if the Englishman who found your wounded Sedjur had uttered such words?"
35615What is the use of worrying about the future, and about such a hopeless thing as compensation?
35615What proof is there that the child had any of his medicines?"
35615What say you?"
35615What says our hero?
35615What was the matter?"
35615When do you expect that the town will be attacked?"
35615Where did you say it was kept?"
35615Whereabouts are we?"
35615Whom do you think I have been talking to, Walter?"
35615Why do you follow me about?"
35615Will you also come?"
35615Would I also have to face tier above tier of London society?
35615Would I have to deliver an address, and relate all my experiences?
35615Would that it had brought you Queen Sophana''s Serpent Belt also?
35615You surely do not suggest that we should continue to fool about in the desert any longer?"
35615he replied;"what matter?
35615interrupted my father,"are you going on with this much longer?"
38319; no shadow on the earth to which one could sayWhence?"
38319Ah, well, kim bilior?
38319Allah bilior( God knows), and then, after a minute''s silence, he repeated:"Kim bilior?
38319Am not I a good kalekji?
38319Aman,rejoins Arten,"what am I to do?
38319And are there no written words,he said,"to tell you the meaning of this law?"
38319And how much money must I give for him, Padishah?
38319And if you do not follow the law, what then?
38319And you, Vali Pasha, have you also a friend in England?
38319Are they wicked men, then?
38319Are you ready?
38319Burra, burra, burra,he would say, pointing his thumb at them;"burra, burra, burra, what is the use of all this talking?"
38319But can they not see that you are travelling?
38319But do you not see all these people looking at you? 38319 But if you all do the same,"said Hassan,"how can you progress?
38319But why,persisted Hassan,"should that cause them not to understand you?"
38319But, mademoiselle, do you not understand? 38319 Ca n''t you hurry the men up?"
38319Can you not send these men away, ladies? 38319 Did you hear, Hassan?"
38319Do you not see anything of the natives?
38319Do you think the Mudir will be angry with us for leaving him behind?
38319Do you?
38319Does this abuse of the hat emanate from the same source?
38319Got anything like this in London?
38319Has she no friend in England,he asked X one day,"or does she never speak in England either?"
38319Has there come to thee the story of the overwhelming?
38319Have we not done well, Effendi?
38319Health good?
38319How can that be?
38319How cold?
38319How could I know you would like them?
38319How did you know we liked tough chunks burnt on a brazier?
38319How far is it to the next stage?
38319How is that?
38319How long has he been there?
38319How much did you give for him?
38319How''s everything?
38319I say''Yasdin me''and she says,''How many piastres?'' 38319 Is Allah here?"
38319Is he always going about in his shirt- sleeves, I wonder?
38319Is it a sin that your country has committed that it is thus condemned,he went on,"or is the jinn an evil spirit under whose curse it lies?"
38319Is it always like this?
38319Is it really going to be a pudding?
38319Is it this jinn that makes your men wear the hard black hats and the tight black clothes?
38319Is my face as red as yours?
38319Is not that mirage in front of us? 38319 It is so,"he said, nodding his head solemnly;"Kim bilior?
38319It means''Have you written it?''
38319Kach Saat daha?
38319Kim bilior?
38319My hot- water bottle,answered X reflectively;"and you?"
38319My soul is Christian,he said anxiously, as I moved off;"are you not my sister?"
38319Nazil?
38319Ne Pilij?
38319Ne faidet?
38319Ne yasdin me?
38319No fowl, how eggs?
38319Nothing,he would exclaim;"nothing?"
38319Oh, is that all?
38319Oh,said X, turning to me,"what was it?"
38319Pas possible, mademoiselle,he kept on ejaculating,"pas possible, comment faire cuisine?"
38319Pasha, what are we against these men? 38319 Pretty view, is n''t it?"
38319Raki?
38319Sheker, effendi?
38319Soan?
38319Supposing he does stop rowing,said X,"will you shoot him?"
38319Surely you can appeal to the local authorities?
38319The English fear nothing; why should they fear water?
38319The Nicene Creed-- eh, what?
38319The ladies like me, do they not? 38319 There, now do you see?
38319They told us you would look after us here?
38319We can only give to those who are really ill,we answered;"what is the matter with this one?"
38319What are all these people doing?
38319What are we to do?
38319What can I do with figures?
38319What can we have?
38319What danger has there been?
38319What do you want?
38319What do you want?
38319What is all this crowd about?
38319What is going to happen to us?
38319What is it to you?
38319What is she saying?
38319What is the matter with Hassan?
38319What is this?
38319What is this?
38319What on earth do you mean?
38319What will you have for supper?
38319What would you mind losing most?
38319What''s up?
38319When would that be?
38319Where are the cutlets?
38319Where are your husbands?
38319Where have you been?
38319Where is he? 38319 Where is your dragoman?"
38319Where is your friend now, Padishah?
38319Where, indeed?
38319Who are you?
38319Who are you?
38319Who is that?
38319Who is this person then?
38319Who know what?
38319Who says that we may not camp here?
38319Why did you never let us have them, then?
38319Why did you say he had not come?
38319Why do n''t you go and scold the Padishah?
38319Why do they keep on looking at us?
38319Why do you not carry arms?
38319Why in such a hurry?
38319Why, what does it make you think about?
38319Why,laughed X,"do they think I shall roll over?"
38319Will you come with us and guard us well?
38319Will you explain,she said,"that the raft is ours, and that we are very sorry but we are afraid we can not take the ladies with us?"
38319X,I murmured softly,"what does this make you think about?"
38319X,I said,"I fear this poor creature''s head has been turned with fright; do you think a little quinine would be of any use?
38319X,I said,"if you met a savage all alone in a wild piece of country what would you do?"
38319X,I said,"is n''t this a splendid piece of luck?"
38319X,I said,"what does''atesh getir''mean?"
38319X,I said,"where do you think we are floating to?"
38319X,I said,"will it be best to eat chocolate with the Bovril thrown in, or to drink Bovril with the chocolate thrown in?"
38319X,I shout across the tent,"what does''yasdin me''mean?
38319X?
38319Yasdin me? 38319 Yasdin me?
38319Yasdin me?
38319Yasdin me?
38319Yes, but what is it?
38319You speak Turkish, then?
38319You were not frightened in the night, I hope?
38319( Who knows?
38319( Who knows?)
38319( what is pilij?).
38319( what is the use?
38319( what is"yasdin me?").
38319(_ Turns to us._ You said that, did n''t you?)
38319***** Was it the sun only, with its light on the yellow columns, that made one think of Palmyra purely as a city of gold?
38319A dishevelled looking official in uniform peeped through the door:"The Governor''s salaams, and do the Princesses require anything?"
38319A messenger arrived from the Kaimakam-- were the ladies ready for the feast?
38319A stray Armenian would accost us on the road with"Who are you?
38319An angry buzz arose just behind us; were they going to stick us in the back?
38319And as we tarried, marvelling on these things, there came out a messenger from the city, and he said,"Why standest thou without?
38319And how do the noble ladies find Adana?
38319And we said to Hassan,"Wherefore these mounds?"
38319And we said,"Tell us, we pray thee, how that is?"
38319And we, speaking through Jacobhan, said to him,"Has your business been well?"
38319And where do the ladies intend to travel after this?
38319Art thou become like unto us?
38319But can you, in any mood or under any circumstance, evade the silence of the desert?
38319But does this never happen to those who have made elaborate plans against all possible contingencies?
38319But use it?
38319But was not the moon more for us alone?
38319But what would Time, that unremitting, relentless current, do with us?
38319But why should our souls be vexed over the words of learned men?
38319Coming out of a state of primitive civilisation, are we unable to appreciate the true meaning of our surroundings?
38319Did they envy us, sitting boldly outside, unveiled, open to the stares of all this crowd?
38319Do you feel any freedom in the wind until you have created it?
38319Do you hear, Vali Pasha?"
38319Do you mind it at all?"
38319Do you never change then either, you in the West?"
38319Do you not think it must be mirage, Effendi?"
38319Do you not think the moment has arrived for giving ourselves some little return for all the bother they have been?"
38319Does his Excellency think the road is safe?
38319Had not Nebuchadnezzar entered into the House of the Dead in the great cavern Araltu, the Land of No Return?
38319Hassan''s words rang in my ears,"Kim bilior?
38319Hassan, has the Mudir come?"
38319Have the ladies a kalek[6] in London?
38319Have the ladies no husbands, then?
38319Have you written it?"
38319Have you written it?"
38319Have you written it?"
38319He admitted being there to tout for trade_ in case_ it came; but who could tell, in a country like this, what would happen?
38319How could they be otherwise?
38319How do the ladies like Turkey?
38319How indeed can they be otherwise if you propose travelling in a country which has not yet been ticketed and docketed for the tourist?
38319How much longer will its solitude be left unviolated?
38319How will it be when the Monster comes, roaring and snorting through these silent plains, polluting this clear air with his dust and smoke?
38319How''s mine?"
38319I asked( How many hours more?).
38319I have not the smallest idea what"yasdin me"means, but I pretend to write it down and then say:"How many piastres was it?"
38319I look down this long_ table d''hôte_, and what do I see?
38319I said,"how dared you begin by holding out hopes of lobster salad and maraschino croûstades?"
38319In a short time they also will be dead, and you and I will be dead, and therefore why should we care whether or not this was the city of Abraham?
38319Is it possible, moreover, to judge this method of travel by our standard of ideas in the West?
38319Is she alone?
38319Is there any calm for you in the sea until you put it there?
38319It showed then no more favour to us than to these dwellers in towns, and yet was it not more to us?
38319It was a laconic method, essentially Turkish, of saying"How?"
38319Look, it is there; do you see, did you hear?
38319Mesdemoiselles, did I not implore you for the love of God to respect the secrecy?
38319No Turkish?
38319Now and then he would reach out one to me.--"Will you smoke, Effendi?"
38319One only asks,"Why have made the plan?"
38319Our friend had sent down sheets for our beds, which were being constructed on the divans; would he show them where they were meant to go?
38319Surely they are not going to take us all at once?
38319That was what you said, was n''t it, Padishah?"
38319The dead had been stirred up, even the chief ones of earth, to greet him as he entered hell:"Art thou also become weak as we?
38319The great doctor in London, has he not said,''You shall sleep in the tent every night''?"
38319The ladies are sisters, then?
38319The lady''s father, is he a great Pasha?
38319The other lady(_ nodding at me_), is she a servant that she does not speak?
38319There was nothing one could take hold of; no cloud in the sky of which to ask the question"Whither?
38319They surely like me better than their other kalekjis?"
38319Turkish was becoming more intelligible to us, and the conversation usually took the same form:--"Who is your father?"
38319Was all this din and bustle going on?
38319Was it going to hurl us too into oblivion?
38319Was it not in such a place as this, alone with the great forces of Nature, that Mahomet formed his conception of God as an Irresistible Power?
38319Was it only the day before that X had said she felt like floating to Eternity and I had maintained that we should be hurled into Oblivion?
38319Was it under such influences as these that Mahomet''s longing, awe- struck soul first heard,"Cry, what shall I cry?"
38319Was there nothing left of our stores?
38319We could speak the language, then?"
38319We might be there for days, and what should we do for food?
38319We were to sleep indoors, but was it not with Government sanction and under Government auspices?
38319Well, only such words as"hot water,""tea,"and"be quick,"and"is my horse ready?"
38319Were we not more conscious of its innumerable gifts; and did we not receive more from it as a result of our greater appreciation?
38319Were we only joking then?
38319What are the Government going to do with us?
38319What are you saying to them?"
38319What casual observer would realise what we had in common?
38319What do they know of you who pull down blinds and light up the gas and dwell in curtained rooms?
38319What hordes of like beings might not be concealed behind these mysterious hillocks?
38319What is she doing there?
38319What is your name?"
38319What justification is there then for writing a book at all?
38319What would you do?"
38319Where are you going?
38319Where did she come from?
38319Where is he?
38319Where were we drifting to?
38319Who are you?
38319Who is your Pasha?
38319Why are they not married?
38319Why not?
38319Why should we resist?"
38319Why this sudden interest in your food?"
38319Why this unnatural dread of truth and simplicity?
38319Wild sons of the desert, product of this eternal silence, are you so much a part of it that you are unconscious of its power?
38319Will it please the ladies to dine with me to- morrow?
38319Will you send my love to his Excellency your father?
38319Would we not reconsider it?
38319You have the best kalekji; do you see I always have the best of the river?
38319You were n''t afraid, were you?"
38319Your father, the great Pasha, has he many sons?
38319_ i.e._,"How are you?"
38319and subsequently gave forth that long blazonry of Nature''s beauty in the Koran?
38319are the ladies not the honoured guests of the Sultan?
38319he called out,"un, deux?"
38319he cries out at one time, and again:"Does there not come in man a portion of time when he is nothing worth mentioning?"
38319he said;"was the Pasha afraid of the waters?"
38319he went on;"is it because you are great Pashas?"
38319how can one associate with them?
38319mademoiselle, what can one do with such people?
38319shouted X to Hassan through the felt wall,"why have n''t we started?"
38319they said;"why do you not send for him?"
38319was there no way of making yourself heard or felt?
38319what is the use of this Kallabalak?"
38319who is afraid of Ibrahim Pasha?
38319yasdin me?
38319yasdin me?
38319yasdin me?"
38319yasdin me?"