Barka

She was unveiled, like Lella M'Barka's servants in

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She laughed herself into helplessness, and encouraged by her wild merriment, and Lella M'Barka's smiles and exclamations punctuated with fits of coughing, they set to work at pulling out hairpins, and the tortoise-shell combs that kept the

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M'Barka's eyes became introspective, as if she waited for a message, or saw a vision.

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It was a very different carriage from Lella M'Barka's, in Algiers; a vehicle for the country, Victoria thought it not unlike old-fashioned chaises in which farmers 'families sometimes drove to Potterston, to church.

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But now, M'Barka's warnings had brought the fears back, like flapping ravens.

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She had to conquer the little cold thrill of superstitious fear which crept through her veins, as Saidee's words reminded her of M'Barka's sand-divining.

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M'Barka's vision of the dark man who was not of Victoria's country could not have been better; and because he knew that his cousin believed in the sand, he was superstitiously impressed by her prophecy and advice.

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In spite of M'Barka's vision in the sand, and his own superstition, he was sure now that nothing could come between him and his wish.

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Victoria, seeking some excuse not to hear M'Barka's prophecies, yet not to hurt M'Barka's feelings, or Maïeddine's.

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From one box came wide trousers of white silk, like Lella M'Barka's; from another, vests of satin and velvet of pale shades embroidered with gold or silver.

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