"Oh, dear! oh, dear! get away," she cried. "I haven't got any more;
indeed I haven't. Go away, I tell you! Mr. Damer! oh, Mr. Damer!" and
then, in the excess of her agony, she uttered one loud, long, and
continuous shriek.
Up came Mr. Damer; up came Abdallah; up came M. Delabordeau; up came
Mr. Ingram, and at last she was rescued. "You shouldn't go away and
leave me to the mercy of these nasty people. As to that Abdallah, he
is of no use to anybody."
"Why you bodder de good lady, you dem blackguard?" said Abdallah,
raising his stick, as though he were going to lay them all low with a
blow. "Now you get noting, you tief!"
The Arabs for a moment retired to a little distance, like flies driven
from a sugar-bowl; but it was easy to see that, like the flies, they
would return at the first vacant moment.
And now they had reached the very foot of the Pyramids and proceeded to
dismount from their donkeys. Their intention was first to ascend to
the top, then to come down to their banquet, and after that to
penetrate into the interior. And all this would seem to be easy of
performance.
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