A Day At Laguerre's And Other Days: Being Nine Sketches ...
A Day At Laguerre's And Other Days: Being Nine Sketches ...
Smith Francis Hopkinson
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He sighs his regrets, but with a lightness that shows his heart is not in them. He has been but a " ha- mal " himself, he thinks, lugging the trap about in the heat, and sitting for hours doing nothing — absolutely nothing. And I have bought so little in the ba- zaars, and his commissions are so small. But then, as he reflects, is he not the dragoman of dragomans, and might not future wa)rfarers be my intimate friends and his special prey? So he becomes doubly solicitous as the time draws near.... Would effendi allow him to place a few pounds of grapes in the compartment, the road to Philippopolis is so dusty and the water is so bad ? Had not the um- brella better go above, and the rugs on the other seat ? Last of all, with a certain tenderness that he knows will appeal to me, where will the most gracious effendi permit him to place the dear old trap, my com- 73 Digitized by Google Under the panion over so many thousand miles of Minarets ^^.^^^j p At my feet ? No; on the cush- ion beside me !
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