The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore

Author:Brian Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The following day as she went in on the arm of Monsieur de la Garde to a luncheon given by the Governor-General in honour of her husband, Emmeline saw Deniau enter the room carrying copies of a newspaper which he handed out to Monsieur de la Garde and the Prefect. The newspaper was Le Moniteur Algérien, the voice of Algiers’ French population, and when he opened his copy and began to read it Monsieur de la Garde said to the company, ‘Aha! Listen to this! It says here:’

Let us add that this year, as always, the races have been the occasion of numerous festivities offered, in part, to honour our Arab chieftains. But neither the banquets held for them by Monsieur le Maréchal, nor the closing ball which brought together the élite of our population, has impressed them as did the astonishing séance given by Henri Lambert whose supernatural gifts they witnessed for the first time. Monsieur le Maréchal is well aware that recently certain marabouts have managed to impress their fellow Arabs by deeds which would seem to hint at unearthly powers and by this means have gained an influence over the native population which they now wish to exploit in a revolt against French rule. By showing them a Christian whose supernatural powers so far exceed any their marabouts can demonstrate, Monsieur le Maréchal and Monsieur Lambert have made an important contribution to re-establishing the atmosphere of peaceful co-habitation essential to our prosperity.

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