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Indeed, the grimness, to all save Ardea, persisted quite to and through the transformed and transforming city at the eastern foot of Lebanon. Major Caspar was not in tune with the bravura of modern progress, and if he had been, his hatred of Northern importations of whatever nature would have made and kept him hostile.
At length she observed, 'Something has also happened at Gindarics in your absence, noble princes. Last night they brought part of a harem of the Pasha of Aleppo captive hither. This may lead to events. 'I have already ventured to observe to the lordly Keferinis, said Fakredeen, 'that every lance in the Lebanon is at your command, gracious Queen.
We have boot-jacks and a bath-tub, now, and yet all the mysteries the pack-mules carry are not revealed. What next? We had a tedious ride of about five hours, in the sun, across the Valley of Lebanon. It proved to be not quite so much of a garden as it had seemed from the hill-sides. It was a desert, weed-grown waste, littered thickly with stones the size of a man's fist.
The court and buildings of the Wells Theological College have a thoroughly quaint, old-fashioned look, quiet, rigid, and medieval; as if the students reared there could not but be Churchmen of the "Brother Ignatius" stamp, gentlemen, scholars, and priests. I can not leave Wells without speaking of the two splendid "cedars of Lebanon" standing in the environs of the church.
The triumph seemed to decide the Christians of the Lebanon to ally themselves with Bonaparte, and they secretly covenanted to furnish 12,000 troops at his cost; but this question ultimately depended on the siege of Acre. On May 7th their sails were visible far out on an almost windless sea. At once Bonaparte made desperate efforts to carry the "mud-hole" by storm.
'The Prince of England has expressed himself with extreme exactitude, and with flattering grace, replied Keferinis. 'I have indeed visited all the Syrian cities, except Jerusalem, which no one wishes to see, and which, he added, in a sweet calm tone, 'is unquestionably a place fit only for hogs. Tancred started, but repressed himself. 'Have you been in Lebanon? asked Fakredeen.
What does he say?" "He says what we all say, that he is sorry. 'But why have the Orange funeral while things are as they are? he says, and he asks for the red flag not to be shook in the face of the bull." "That is not the talk of a fool, as most priests are," growled the other. "Sure. But it wants a real wind-warbler to make them see it in Lebanon. They've got the needle.
Thus the gallant old commodore, in about a month, freed nearly the whole of the Lebanon, took 500 prisoners, and gained over an equal number of deserters. On the 17th of September Caiffa was bombarded and captured by the Castor and Pique, and a Turkish frigate, under Captain Collier. By the same ships, in a similar manner, Tyre was taken on the 24th, without the loss of a man.
And so Frank, pondering on the mutability of human affairs, again took his departure. He could do nothing now but wait for Dr Thorne's arrival, and so he amused himself in the interval by running down to Malvern, and treating with Miss Dunstable in person for the oil of Lebanon.
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
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