The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862
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Hesat down in a rocking-chair and gazed at a full-length portrait of theHaroun Alraschid. About noon the lady came in, with six shop clerks after her, bearingpackages, tossed off her head-dress, and flung herself inanimately onthe sofa. 'Ahem, ' grunted Sid Norman, who was concealed in the shadow of analcove. Amina looked up. Furies! what an appalling rencontre! She looked as paleas the corpses which she adored; she would have shrieked, but had nomore voice than a ghost; she would have fled, bu...t was riveted as withthe gaze of a basilisk. 'Dear, ' said Sid Norman, with an uxorious smile, 'what ails you? Has thefast of Kamazan begun? Hardly yet, for this looks more like thecarnival. How much gave you for this Cashmere, my love?' A great sculptor was Sid Norman, for, without lifting a hand, or usingany other tool than a keen eye and a sharp tongue, he had wrought outbefore him, carved as in cold marble, the statue of a beautiful, badwoman. Such is genius. Such is conscience! 'Mrs. Amina Sidi Ghoul Norman, ' proceeded the husband, giving his wifetime to relax a little from her rigor, 'is dinner ready?
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