The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . X z oz^ a: ? _ as as 7^ D O. a X ,^^ So 5 < ^ -yj -f ••:i; XZ - STRANGE ARAB WAYS 93 in her own house. The answer was characteristic ofthe Arab way of regarding things. She appeared tobe shyly gratified, but after a few quiet words inArabic with Taib, he told us that she would gladlyconsent, but as her husbands small children wereabout, and might tell their father, she was afraid ! The house consisted of the same large generalroom and the dark cupboard bedrooms that we hadseen before, but our pretty hostess had in some waybecome possessed of quit
The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . X z oz^ a: ? _ as as 7^ D O. a X ,^^ So 5 < ^ -yj -f ••:i; XZ - STRANGE ARAB WAYS 93 in her own house. The answer was characteristic ofthe Arab way of regarding things. She appeared tobe shyly gratified, but after a few quiet words inArabic with Taib, he told us that she would gladlyconsent, but as her husbands small children wereabout, and might tell their father, she was afraid ! The house consisted of the same large generalroom and the dark cupboard bedrooms that we hadseen before, but our pretty hostess had in some waybecome possessed of quite an interesting little collec-tion of pottery, for which she had had shelves made,to hang in her own bedroom—a small and totallydark recess, to which we were proudly conducted bythe light of a candle. After distributing trifling gifts to the small child-ren, we said good-bye, our hostess taking leave of us,of course, before we reached the door into the villagestreet, as she was unveiled. And as we left wepronounced the usual benediction (which we hadlearned), as
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