[The Brethren by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Brethren CHAPTER Eight: The Widow Masouda 14/26
Slave, come here." With startling suddenness the Nubian who had led away the mule appeared, and took up some of the packages.
Then she led them down a passage into a large, sparsely-furnished room with high windows, in which were two beds laid on the cement floor, and asked them if it pleased them. They said: "Yes; it will serve." Reading what passed in their minds, she added: "Have no fear for your baggage.
Were you as rich as you say you are poor, and as noble as you say you are humble, both it and you are safe in the inn of the widow Masouda, O my guests--but how are you named ?" "Peter and John." "O, my guests, Peter and John, who have come to visit the land of Peter and John and other holy founders of our faith--" "And have been so fortunate as to be captured on its shore by the widow Masouda," answered Godwin, bowing again. "Wait to speak of the fortune until you have done with her, Sir--is it Peter, or John ?" she replied, with something like a smile upon her handsome face. "Peter," answered Godwin.
"Remember the pilgrim with the line of white hair is Peter." "You need it to distinguish you apart, who, I suppose, are twins. Let me see--Peter has a line of white hair and grey eyes.
John has blue eyes.
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