Ni'amah bin al-Rabi'a and Naomi his Slave-girl, iv.
They crowd around me and say, "Tell us more," just as I did with my old amah when she stilled me with the tales of the Gods.
My amah wished to put on the heavy bindings, but I would not permit it.
He will not work or study, and many times at night I send away the gatekeeper and leave my amah at the outer archway, so thy Mother will not know the hour he enters.
The other day our amah told Leonard and me to chatter our teeth three times and blow.
The Caliph also loaded Ni'amah and Naomi with gifts and honours and rewarded the old nurse; and they abode with him seven days in joy and content and all delight of life, when Ni'amah craved leave to return to Cufa with his slave-girl.
Ni'amah replied, "An old woman of such and such a mien, clad in woollen raiment and carrying a rosary of beads numbered by thousands.
The interpolated tale of Ni'amah and Naomi is tender and pretty, and as the Arabs say, sweet as bees' honey.
The amah shouldered the steaming buckets and splashed across the bare boards of the ancestral hall beyond.
Their voices and the answers of the serving amah filled the kitchen with noise.
Little Yi was quite willing, and they trotted along, all the Chinese staring very hard to see a little foreign girl in the streets without even an amah to look after her.
With seven o'clock came Nelly's amah to put her to bed.
The amah would have willingly done everything for Nelly, but Mrs. Grey insisted that she must undress herself and not become helpless, as children brought up in the East often do, because there are so many servants to wait on them.
To be sure, he slept a great deal, or the amah would have been obliged to hand him over to a younger woman.
