Maxime right away requested to enjoy himself alone with her, and they descended to a room on the first floor. After Monsieur Ducamp came Monsieur Flaubert. Both of them began scraping and scratching on their rebabehs, which is a kind of small, roundish violin from the end of which extends an iron bar that is planted in the ground for support. The rebabeh has two strings of horsehair. Also the neck of the rebabeh is very long in relation to the body of the instrument.
Nothing is more raucous or disagreeable, and the musicians go on forever with their playing.
Finally one has to yell to get them to stop. She tightens her vest up around her throat in such a manner that her two uncovered breasts are pushed one against the other. For a belt she wraps around her a brown shawl with thin gold stripes, tied somewhat like a bowtie and having three tassels hanging from ribbons. I saw this dance depicted on old Greek vases. Bambeh has henna on her hands.