Silver Angel
“She was still in her bedchamber, but she was no longer calm. Kadar and Adamma both had been browbeating her for the past thirty minutes. Jamil had been told that she was ill, but he didn’t care. He insisted she make an appearance. She refused.
“If you do not go, the Dey will come here,” Adamma told her.
“No, he won’t. You said he rarely bestirs himself to enter the harem because of the commotion it causes.”
“But if he does? And if he does, he will be furious.”
“Good,” Chantelle snorted. “Anger ...loves company just as much as misery.”
Both servants grimaced simultaneously at such a sentiment. They had been warned to get results or else. It was the “or else” that kept them trying, but they were getting nowhere.
Haji Agha waited in the outer room, too old and set in his ways to resort to mere cajolery with a concubine when so many other options were usually available to him. But all they could do was argue in this case, after the Dey had ordered no punishments for the girl.MoreLess
“If you do not go, the Dey will come here,” Adamma told her.
“No, he won’t. You said he rarely bestirs himself to enter the harem because of the commotion it causes.”
“But if he does? And if he does, he will be furious.”
“Good,” Chantelle snorted. “Anger ...loves company just as much as misery.”
Both servants grimaced simultaneously at such a sentiment. They had been warned to get results or else. It was the “or else” that kept them trying, but they were getting nowhere.
Haji Agha waited in the outer room, too old and set in his ways to resort to mere cajolery with a concubine when so many other options were usually available to him. But all they could do was argue in this case, after the Dey had ordered no punishments for the girl.MoreLess
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