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Meriem had traversed half the length of the village street when a score of white-robed Negroes and half-castes leaped out upon her from the dark interiors of surrounding huts. She turned to flee, but heavy hands seized her, and when she turned at last to plead with them her eyes fell upon the face of a tall, grim, old man glaring down upon her from beneath the folds of his burnous.
At sight of him she staggered back in shocked and terrified surprise. It was The Sheik!
Instantly all the old fears and terrors of her childhood returned upon her. She stood trembling before this horrible old man, as a murderer before the judge about to pass sentence of death upon him. She knew that The Sheik recognized her. The years and the changed raiment had not altered her so much but what one who had known her features so well in childhood would know her now.
"So you have come back to your people, eh?" snarled1 The Sheik. "Come back begging for food and protection, eh?"
"Let me go," cried the girl. "I ask nothing of you, but that you let me go back to the Big Bwana."
"The Big Bwana?" almost screamed The Sheik, and then followed a stream of profane2, Arabic invective3 against the white man whom all the transgressors of the jungle feared and hated. "You would go back to the Big Bwana, would you? So that is where you have been since you ran away from me, is it? And who comes now across the river after you—the Big Bwana?"
"The Swede whom you once chased away from your country when he and his companion conspired4 with Nbeeda to steal me from you," replied Meriem.
The Sheik's eyes blazed, and he called his men to approach the shore and hide among the bushes that they might ambush5 and annihilate6 Malbihn and his party; but Malbihn already had landed and crawling through the fringe of jungle was at that very moment looking with wide and incredulous eyes upon the scene being
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belongings
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bestial
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admiration
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alluring
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缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳 | |
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doomed
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mightier
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picketed
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stunned
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intercept
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muzzle
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musket
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intercepted
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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gallop
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exultation
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foaming
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galloped
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stupor
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miraculously
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savages
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