I declare there is that Miss Dawkins
looking at us as though she had twenty eyes. Could you not teach her,
Mr. Ingram?"
And so they emerged from the palm-tree grove, through a village crowded
with dirty, straggling Arab children, on to the cultivated plain,
beyond which the Pyramids stood, now full before them; the two large
Pyramids, a smaller one, and the huge sphynx's head all in a group
together.
"Fanny," said Bob Damer, riding up to her, "mamma wants you; so toddle
back."
"Mamma wants me! What can she want me for now?" said Fanny, with a
look of anything but filial duty in her face.
"To protect her from Miss Dawkins, I think. She wants you to ride at
her side, so that Dawkins mayn't get at her. Now, Mr. Ingram, I'll bet
you hall-a-crown I'm at the top of the big Pyramid before you."
Poor Fanny! She obeyed, however; doubtless feeling that it would not
do as yet to show too plainly that she preferred Mr. Ingram to her
mother. She arrested her donkey, therefore, till Mrs. Damer overtook
her; and Mr. Ingram, as he paused for a moment with her while she did
so, fell into the hands of Miss Dawkins.
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