His Long Muscular And Hairy Arms
Were Naked From The Elbow, Where The Sleeves Of The Ferioul
Terminate; His Under
Limbs were short in comparison with his body
and arms; his legs were bare, but he wore blue kandrisa as
Far as
the knee; every features of his face was ugly, exceedingly and
bitterly ugly, and one of his eyes was sightless, being covered
with a white film. By his side on the ground was a large barrel,
seemingly a water-cask, which he occasionally seized with a finger
and thumb, and waved over his head as if it had been a quart pot.
Such was the trio who now occupied the wustuddur of Joanna Correa:
and I had scarcely time to remark what I have just recorded, when
that good lady entered from a back court with her handmaid Johar,
or the pearl, an ugly fat Jewish girl with an immense mole on her
cheek.
"Que Dios remate tu nombre," exclaimed the Mulatto; "may Allah blot
out your name, Joanna, and may he likewise blot out that of your
maid Johar. It is more than fifteen minutes that I have been
seated here, after having poured out into the tinaja the water
which I brought from the fountain, and during all that time I have
waited in vain for one single word of civility from yourself or
from Johar. Usted no tiene modo, you have no manner with you, nor
more has Johar. This is the only house in Tangier where I am not
received with fitting love and respect, and yet I have done more
for you than for any other person.
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