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Aucun ne la regardait comme un jeune chef numide placé aux tables des capitaines, parmi des soldats de sa nation. Sa ceinture était si hérissée de dards, qu’elle faisait une bosse dans son large manteau, noué à ses tempes par un lacet de cuir. L’étoffe, bâillant sur ses épaules, enveloppait d’ombre son visage, et l’on n’apercevait que les flammes de ses deux yeux. C’était par hasard qu’il se trouvait au festin, son père le faisant vivre chez les Barca, selon la coutume des rois qui envoyaient leurs enfants dans les grandes familles pour préparer des alliances. Depuis six mois que Narr’Havas y logeait, il n’avait point encore aperçu Salammbô ; et, assis sur les talons, la barbe baissée vers les hampes de ses javelots, il la considérait en écartant les narines comme un léopard qui est accroupi dans les bambous.

None gazed at her like a young Numidian chief, who was placed at the captains’ tables among soldiers of his own nation. His girdle so bristled with darts that it formed a swelling in his ample cloak, which was fastened on his temples with a leather lace. The cloth parted asunder as it fell upon his shoulders, and enveloped his countenance in shadow, so that only the fires of his two fixed eyes could be seen. It was by chance that he was at the feast, his father having domiciled him with the Barca family, according to the custom by which kings used to send their children into the households of the great in order to pave the way for alliances; but Narr’ Havas had lodged there for six months without having hitherto seen Salammbô, and now, seated on his heels, with his head brushing the handles of his javelins, he was watching her with dilated nostrils, like a leopard crouching among the bamboos.

- Salammbô - Chapter I The Feast - Gustave Flaubert

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Aucun ne la regardait comme un jeune chef numide placé aux tables des capitaines, parmi des soldats de sa nation. Sa ceinture était si hérissée de dards, qu’elle faisait une bosse dans son large manteau, noué à ses tempes par un lacet de cuir. L’étoffe, bâillant sur ses épaules, enveloppait d’ombre son visage, et l’on n’apercevait que les flammes de ses deux yeux. C’était par hasard qu’il se trouvait au festin, son père le faisant vivre chez les Barca, selon la coutume des rois qui envoyaient leurs enfants dans les grandes familles pour préparer des alliances. Depuis six mois que Narr’Havas y logeait, il n’avait point encore aperçu Salammbô ; et, assis sur les talons, la barbe baissée vers les hampes de ses javelots, il la considérait en écartant les narines comme un léopard qui est accroupi dans les bambous.

None gazed at her like a young Numidian chief, who was placed at the captains’ tables among soldiers of his own nation. His girdle so bristled with darts that it formed a swelling in his ample cloak, which was fastened on his temples with a leather lace. The cloth parted asunder as it fell upon his shoulders, and enveloped his countenance in shadow, so that only the fires of his two fixed eyes could be seen. It was by chance that he was at the feast, his father having domiciled him with the Barca family, according to the custom by which kings used to send their children into the households of the great in order to pave the way for alliances; but Narr’ Havas had lodged there for six months without having hitherto seen Salammbô, and now, seated on his heels, with his head brushing the handles of his javelins, he was watching her with dilated nostrils, like a leopard crouching among the bamboos.

- Salammbô - Chapter I The Feast - Gustave Flaubert

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