Then the revels began, pretty girls danced round him laughing, with lighted candles held on high. With a certain quaint grace they mingled merciless chaff with all manner of elfish tricks, pinching and giving him saucy kisses, deceiving him with pretences that his bride was coming, even going so far as to play at being the bride themselves, and doing their utmost to make him laugh. Only Rembrandt could have done justice to the delightful effects of light and shade, the marvellous play of colour. The girls, with their bright beauty enhanced by the quaint horned caps, the gay silk veils, and chains and jewels gleaming under the flickering lights, the lace sleeves falling away from their bare arms, and their lithe, graceful forms wrapped in bright-hued silk, were a perfect picture.
The bridegroom bore all the teasing with a stolid countenance and a mock air of meekness—it is considered most unlucky to smile—but at last he received his reward. The real bride stood before her lord, veiled, with her head slightly bowed. He rose, lifted her veil, and kissed her. The little ceremony was at an end.
A Ain-Tunga, 129 Aïssaouas, 201, 223 Algiers, 3-33, 38, 40, 42, 195 Arab Cemetery, 25 Bois de Boulogne, 31 Carpet school, 8 Casbah, 5, 31 Cathedral, 33 Chateau Hydra, 31 Colonne Voirol, 27 Embroidery school, 7 Fort des vingt-quatre heures, 33 Jardin d’Essai, 20, 25 Koubba, 31 Marabout of Sidi Noumann, 27 Moorish houses, 7 Moorish villas, 23 Mosque of Sidi Abder Rahman, 9 Museum, 33 Notre Dame d’Afrique, 31 Penon, 12 Tiger Gateway, 12 Atlas Mountains, 130 Aures Mountains, 74, 78, 83, 95, 130
B Batna, 42, 93, 94, 98 Belisarius, 109, 185 Berbers, 78, 82 Biskra, 42, 44, 58-89, 207, 222 The races, 84 Bizerta, 189 Bône, 46 Bougie, 46 Bou Korneïne, 183, 194 Bouzareah, 27, 28 Bruce, 98, 103, 134
C Carthage, 127, 141, 154, 173, 179-189, 199 Aqueduct, 185 Byrsa, 182, 189 Cathedral, 184 Chapel of St. Louis, 184 Museum, 182 Punic cisterns, 184 Punic tombs, 186 Roman amphitheatre, 186 Cervantes, 32 Charles V., 142, 173 Chehoud el Batal, 128 Cherchell, 30, 126 Chotts, 207 Claudian, 30 Col de Sfa, 83 Constantine, 107-115, 195 Baths of Sidi Meçid, 115 Bridge of el Kantara, 108 Casbah, 112 Cathedral, 114 Chemin des Touristes, 112 Gorge of the Roumel, 110 Mansoura, 110 Palace of the Bey, 115 Sidi Rached, 111 Constantine the Great, 108 Creuly (General), 125