The Court of the King And Other Studies

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The Court of the King And Other Studies
Margaret Benson
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Achmet's mother is the most silent and most graceful woman in the village. She is the youngest of Buk- dadi's two wives ; the other must be the mother of the sullen looking boy who lounges after our water- donkey up and down the hill, for she is grey haired, while Achmet's mother has thick black plaits under her blue head veil. She is not indifferent to matters of dress, for her outer wrapping is edged with crimson. She seems far more active than the other woman, and all her movements, in the m
...ost menial occupation, show an unconscious grace which tempts one to the full use of unusual advan- 77 The Court of the King tages of observation. Her grace is not the tender quality often so-called, but a robust deftness and certainty of action. She had to drive a lame donkey to the water the other day, and in the strokes of her staff there was no more pity for the little beast, halting and hurrying between two diverse pains, than for her own burdened womanhood. The donkey must drink ; she herself would bring water for the household in the great earthenware pot balanced on her head.

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