Identifier: bywatersofcartha00loriuoft (find matches)
Title: By the waters of Carthage
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lorimer, Norma Octavia, 1864-
Subjects: Tunisia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wrathful as when she is late for the solemndinner ceremony, so we hurried towards the tram. Does he find the pepper good in Tunis ? Iasked ; he has stayed some time. La Beige gave my arm a little pinch, Oh, youare so naughty ! she said; but let me tell you how Imanaged. I told the maitre dhotel that my husbandnever could be troubled to leave any place if he wascomfortable, that it was / who always had to make himgo. So if the food was good, and the cigars were cheap,he would stay on and on. And, monsieur, I said, /wish to stay on in Tunis; I find it amuses me. So everynight we have such beautiful dinners, such great delicacies,and every night I listen to Jean when he tells me howgood and cheap the cigars are and how very excellentis the food. I pay the maitre dhotel for these niceluxuries at dinner and for the balance on all the cigarswhich Jean thinks so very cheap. She gave a littlegurgling laugh. It is a very good arrangement. 1prefer to stay in Tunis—it amuses me; and if I spend
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Chapter X 215 my money in that way—in pleasing my husband—whomdoes it hurt ? No one, I said, and you only act up to thegolden rule, feed the beast. Poor Jean ! she said, the most of husbands areworse than he—I always say that to myself. It is onlyfoolish to be sad because husbands are not lovers; perhapswives are not always sweethearts. You dimpled philosopher, 1 said, I believe youwould have made the best of Monsieur Ajeeb. It would not be for ones happiness to make theworst, if you wish to be gay—is that not so ? He isvain ; it would have amused me, perhaps, to flatter hisvanity. Food and flattery keep most men kind andgentle. Tact^ I think you call it, is the only strength awife has. Monsieur Ajeeb has told me of one very prettycustom which happens at a Jewish wedding which illus-trates the fact. At the first meal which a husband and wife eat togetherafter their marriage, a large fish is set before the husband.He goes to carve it, but he cannot break the bones, forthe bride

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