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120 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR “Remain in peace,” she said, “and do not misunderstand any change in my manner towards you. I shall have to dissemble, and so will you.” While she was still speaking the slave girl entered. “Take this woman from out of my sight!” she exclaimed excitedly, “take her awa y,” she almost yelled, and rising from the floor, where she had been sitting, she endeavoured to thrust both her and the attendant outside the door. Gul Begum gazed at her in absolute wonder, so rapid had been the transformation. Again she saw before her the woman who had kicked and lashed the slave girl for what had been a mere accident, and the who le of the former horror and terror at finding herself in such surroundings returned. She rose hurriedly to her feet. “You hear what I sa y,” her mistress yelled, still addressing her attendant. “Put them outside the garden gate, these labourers who come to us disguised as princesses as tell us they are Chiefs’ and Viziers’ <strong>daughter</strong>s. Send them to their proper sphere, and put them to the work for which they were born, and send me the Derwan here.” The slave girl advanced towards her mistress. “Sahib,” she whispered in her ear, “consider well, Ferad Shah returns to-day. You know him. He will see this woman, you cannot prevent him unless, perhaps, for a day or two at most, and when he has seen her, who knows what her position ma y be? If you maltreat her now she may have a chance of causing you to remember it later. Be advised. She has looks.” “Look, has she?” roared the mistress. “Cursed be the father of her looks. Do as I tell you, take her away from me. How dare you leave her here when I have ordered you to remove her, and send me the Derwan here. I have a good deal to say to him. It is possible he too may have been deceived, but I will undeceive him.” * Henna is the herb with which almost all sects of Eastern women dye their hands, and especially their nails, a sort of terra -cotta colour. The leaves are ground into a powder, and by the addition of water, a sort of thick paste is made. In this the fingers are closely encased. The hand is then closed, and a second coating is placed all over the fist. The hands are kept doubled up like this all night, and next morning they are dyed a deep terra -cotta, the creases in the palm of the hand showing up white where the dye has not reached. This is considered a beauty, and is, moreover, thought to soften the skin.
121 A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR CHAPTER XXII “A SLAVE” SO rapid had been the change in the Bibi’s attitude towards her, that Gul Begum, for a moment, felt that her petition had been an insane one, and could have wished it unproffered. Soon, however, she realised that greater discomfort at the moment might lead to something better in the future, if only her mother and other relations would stand by her. “What on earth have you said or done so to offend the Bibi?” the slave girl asked. “You have been ver y unwise, and I must not seem to notice
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