Show PRETTY FACES BEHIND VEILS ali olal women screens lal V ieng about moorish women rich ui larding davis says there is continually interesting in the muffled agin os of the women thay make you almost ashamed of the uncovered faces of the american women in the town and in lack of any to the contrary you to jr lieve every moorish girl yon meet is s beautiful as her eyes would make it appear that jhc is those of the girls whose faces I 1 saw were distinctly handsome they were the women benjamin constant paints in liis pictures of algiers and about whom pierre loti goes into ecstasies in his book on the robe or cloak or whatever the tiling is they affect covers alie head like a hood and with one hand they hold one of the folds in front of the face as ghigli as their eyes the only times I 1 ever saw the faces of any of them were when I 1 occasionally eluded mohamed and ran off with a little guide called isaac the especial protector of two american women who farmed him out to me when aliey pre berred to stay in alie lintel lie is a particularly beautiful youth and I 1 noticed that whenever he was with me the cloaks of the women had a fashion of coming undone ard alif y would lower them for an instant and look at isaac and then replace them severely upon the bridga of the nose then isaac would turn toward me a shy conscious smile and then mush violently isaac says alie young men of kaniers taniers Ta can tell whether or bot a fairl is pretty by looking at her feet it is true that their feet are bare but it struck me ab a somewhat test for bleet ele et ee a bride |