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Affair in Araby

CHAPTER VII
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If you don't believe that, try living in camp for a week or two with a man who chews meat with his mouth open.

You'll feel the promptings of a murderer.

I know a scientist who swears that the real secret of the Cain and Abel story is that Abel sucked his gums at mealtime.
"You ought to be buried up to the neck and fed with a shovel!" Jeremy informed him in blunt English after listening to the solo for a while.
"Aha! That is the way they used to treat criminals in Persia," he answered pleasantly, with his mouth full of goat's milk cheese.

"Only they put plaster of Paris in the hole, and when it rained the wretched man was squeezed until the blood came out of his mouth and eyes, and he died in agony.

But how comes it that you speak to me in English?
If we are both Arabs, why not talk the mother tongue ?" "My rump is my rump and the land is its rulers," Jeremy answered in Arabic, quoting the rudest proverb he could think of on the spur of the moment.
"Ah! And who is its ruler?
Who is to be its ruler ?" Yussuf Dakmar made a surreptitious face at Grim, and his little cold eyes shone like a hungry pariah dog's.


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