The pub-goer likes to feel a sense of goodheartedness in his wateringhole, and Davis defines this as the difference between gossip and spite (Davis, 1981: 24).

He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.

Gods so! a muss, a muss, a muss, a muss.

Mulay Hafiz appealed to France. France immediately responded by sending a sizable expeditionary force to occupy Morocco.