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Belad el Megheba, in the upper Yafei country, is under Sultan Hakam Mohamed-bin-Ali. Neither is Sahib Lauda under the Turks; the inhabitants are Augheri. This has a very soft guttural the Arabic ghin. Our next stage was Bir Lammas, about four miles off, mostly across the monotonous plain. We passed four dars and villages. In time of war the Fadhli sultan comes and occupies one of these dars.
"Our ways lie different," said Belle. "I don't see why they should," said I. "Come, let us be off to America together." "To America together?" said Belle, looking full at me. "Yes," said I; "where we will settle down in some forest, and conjugate the verb siriel conjugally." "Conjugally?" said Belle. "Yes," said I; "as man and wife in America, air yew ghin."
Curse the swan for having become a ghin; the white swan for having transformed herself into a cat, and then awake from your despair. Behold her standing before you with the sweet expression on her delicate features, with the blushing cheeks as you raise the veil, with the crimson lips that grow more crimson still as yours touch them.
What woman is this who suddenly appears at his side, closely shrouded in a black veil? Is it another ghin come up from the deep? "You are right," murmured he, "no one need longer hope for assistance from me; I will give vengeance and destruction to those who call on me for help!" He springs to his feet and stares fiercely at the woman. "Away from me!
Belle, in Armenian, woman is ghin, the same word, by the by, as our queen, whereas mare is madagh tzi, which signifies a female horse; and perhaps you will permit me to add, that a hard-mouthed jade is, in Armenian, madagh tzi hsdierah." "I can't bear this much longer," said Belle.
We went on ten miles to Al Ghail, rising to an altitude of 2,000 feet above the sea-level. This word ghail begins with the Arabic ghin, which is a soft sound between r and g. There are two villages near the head of the Wadi Howeri, where there is actually a ghail that rare phenomenon in Arabia, a rill or running stream.
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