At this time a growing feeling of discomfort had been creeping overhim--nervous reaction, perhaps, after the delight of his discovery.
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 1 II THE LEFT-HAND LAND 일산 출장.만남 6 III THE CITY OF SATURN 26 IV THE SPIRIT OF OLYMPIA 44 V ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS 60 VI THE LAND OF UZ 72 VII THE EARTHLY PARADISE 88 VIII THE PORT OF THE WILDERNESS 95 IX THE RICHES OF DAMASCUS 110 X THE DESERT CAPITAL 128 XI SOME SALT PEOPLE 144 XII THE CEDARS OF THE LORD 163 XIII THE GIANT STONES OF BAALBEK 184 XIV HAMATH THE GREAT 201THE ILLUSTRATIONS Evening in the harbor of Beirut _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Along the coast north of Beirut 4 Looking up the western slopes of Lebanon 5 Lebanon soldiers 16 Village of Deir el-Kamr 17 Bay of Beirut and Mount Sunnin 26 Pine groves of Beirut 27 Bridge over the Dog River 36 Procession in Beirut 38 Students of the American College 48 Cape of Beirut viewed from Lebanon 49 Old Bridge over the Barada River 70 Cascade in the Yarmuk Valley 71 A caravan 82 Damascus—a distant view 83 Damascus—one of the more modern avenues 원주 출장서비스 100 A Syrian café 101 Damascus—court of a private residence 112 Damascus—Moslem cemetery 113 Damascus—The Street called Straight 120 Damascus—The Omayyade Mosque 121 Palmyra—General view of the ruins 134 Palmyra—the Triple Gate 135 Funeral procession of the patriarch 160 A summer camp in Lebanon 161 The Cedar Mountain 170 Source of the Kadisha River 171 The oldest Cedar of Lebanon 182 Baalbek—the six great columns 밤꽃 출장샵 183 Baalbek—the stone in the quarry 198 Hama—the Orontes River 199 MAPS AND PLANS The railway from Beirut to Damascus 62 Cross-section of Syria 64 The Hauran 74 The temples of Baalbek 194SYRIATHE LAND OF LEBANON_Syria, The Land of Lebanon_CHAPTER ITHE WHITE MOUNTAINFar off on the eastern horizon the thin haze of an October dawn gentlyblended into denser masses of silvery white, which rose like dreammountains above the edge of the placid azure sea.
“The thing to do,” I advised gravely, “is to get her alone where shecan’t scream or bring help.
Gunstein went home firstto Langey Isle for a short time, and then proceeded south without anyhalt, until he came south to Throndhjem, and there found King Olaf, towhom he told all that had happened on this Bjarmaland expedition.
In order to pass from the Vauxhall to the band-stand, the visitor hasto descend two or three steps.
I found the money, long ago!”“You found it? Thank God for that!”“Your exclamation proves the generous sympathy of your nature, prince;for four hundred roubles—to a struggling family man like myself—is nosmall matter!”“I didn’t mean that; at least, of course, I’m glad for your sake, too,”added the prince, correcting himself, “but—how did you find it?”“Very simply indeed! I found it under the chair upon which my coat hadhung; so that it is clear the purse simply fell out of the pocket andon to the floor!”“Under the chair? Impossible! Why, you told me yourself that you hadsearched every corner of the room? How could you not have looked in themost likely place of all?”“Of course I looked there,—of course I did! Very much so! I looked andscrambled about, and felt for it, and wouldn’t believe it was notthere, and looked again and again.
Were I in any way on a footingwith you, you might be offended at my audacity; but who am I, and whoare you? We are at such extremes, and I am so far removed from you,that I could not offend you if I wished to do so.
But darkness was falling, and soon the lights would be lowered, and thegreat, massive doors would be closed, so gathering her thin little capeabout her frail shoulders, Miss Sophie hurried out, and along thebrilliant noisy streets home.
Vihainenajaja oli kääntynyt taakseen ja huutanut: »Sinä kirottu sika» jasivaltanut vanhaa miestä piiskallaan niin kiivaasti, että veri alkoitihkua.
Emund replies, "There is little news among us Gautlanders; but itappears to us a piece of remarkable news that the proud, stupid Atte, inVermaland, whom we look upon as a great sportsman, went up to the forestin winter with his snow-shoes and his bow.
Heknew just exactly when it was time for crawfish to be plentiful down inthe Claiborne and Marigny canals; just when a poor, breadless fellowmight get a job in the big bone-yard and fertilizing factory out on therailroad track; and as for the levee, with its ships and schooners andsailors--Oh, how he could revel among them! The wondrous ships, thepretty little schooners, where the foreign-looking sailors lay on longmoon-lit nights, singing gay bar carols to the tinkle of a guitar andmandolin.
Sewall looked again at Derwent, with his expression of politecuriosity, as at a misplaced mummy.
For Madelaine Theddon at seventeen, on a mountain height in thestarlight, was as surely the Madelaine Theddon whom One Man foundgloriously, as the sand-crusted diamond in the Kaffir’s girdle is thesame burst of iridescent whiteness on Milady’s finger at Delmonico’s.
Baroda oli varmasti uskonut, että Binoista tulisi perheen aikaansaamanvaikutuksen nojalla piankin Brahma Samadžin jäsen, ja tunsi erikoistaylpeyttä ajatellessaan, että hän itse olisi tämän nuoren miehenkohtalon muovaaja.