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 tually eating) in smoking her hookah, and as most of her visitors did the same, the tiffin-time was very stupid to the little boy; for, instead of pleasant and useful discourse, there was in general nothing to be heard at these meals but the rattling of plates and knives-and-forks, the creaking of the punkah, and the gurgling of the water in the hookah; except