[The Scapegoat by Hall Caine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scapegoat CHAPTER XVIII 11/26
Yet you would not believe me! You would believe him.
Simpleton as you are, you are believing him now! The poor? Fiddle-faddle and fiddlesticks! I tell you again this man is trying to put his foot on your neck.
How? Oh, trust him, he's got his own schemes! Look to it, El Arby, look to it! He'll be master in Tetuan yet!" Saying this, she had wrought herself up to a pitch of wrath, sometimes laughing wildly, and then speaking in a voice that was like an angry cry.
And now, rising to her feet and facing towards the Arab soldiers, who stood aside in silence and wonder, she cried, "Arabs, Berbers, Moors, Christians, fight as you will, follow the Basha as you may, you'll lie in the same bed yet! But where? Under the heels of the Jew!" A hoarse murmur ran from lip to lip among the men, and the ghostly smile came back into the face of Ben Aboo. "You must be right," he said, "you must be right! Ya Allah! Ya Allah! This is the dog that I picked out of the mire.
I found him a beggar, and I gave him wealth.
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