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This is not Lebanon, but the mountains of the Ansarey, who are as they have ever been, before the name of Turk or English was known in Syria, and who will remain as they are, unless that happens which may never happen, but which is too beautiful not to believe may arrive.
The Queen of the Ansarey could command five-and-twenty thousand approved warriors, and the Emir of the Lebanon could summon a host, if not as disciplined, far more numerous. Fakredeen, in a frenzy of reverie, became each moment more practical. Asian supremacy, cosmopolitan regeneration, and theocratic equality, all gradually disappeared.
Are they Arabs? 'I should say not, my lord; for the only one I ever saw was more like a Greek or an Armenian than a son of the desert. 'You have seen one of them? 'It was at Damascus: there was a city brawl, and M. de Sidonia saved the life of a man, who turned out to be an Ansarey, though disguised. They have secret agents at most of the Syrian cities.
Fakredeen Shehaab, Emir of Canobia, and lineal descendant of the standard-bearer of the Prophet, had not such faith in Arabian principles as to dream of converting the Queen of the Ansarey. Quite the reverse; the Queen of the Ansarey had converted him.
'Your mother was an Ansarey! repeated Astarte, in a tone of infinite surprise; 'your mother an Ansarey? Of what family was she a child? 'Ah! replied Fakredeen, 'there it is; that is the secret sorrow of my life. A mystery hangs over my mother, for I lost both my parents in extreme childhood; I was at her heart, he added, in a broken voice, 'and amid outrage, tumult, and war.
Karaguus, the black-eyed pigeon, brought tidings to the Queen of the Ansarey, from her agent Darkush, that two young princes, one a Syrian, the other a Frank, wished to enter her territories to confer with her on grave matters, and that he had reason to believe that one of the princes, the Frank, strange, incredible as it might sound, was one of themselves.
They speak Arabic; but I have heard M. de Sidonia say they have also a language of their own. 'I wonder he did not visit them. 'The plague raged at Aleppo when we were there, and the Ansarey were doubly rigid in their exclusion of all strangers from their country. 'And this Ansarey at Damascus, have you ever seen anything of him since?
Darkush, however, had given Baroni credentials to the secret agent of the Ansarey at Aleppo; and, with his instructions and assistance, the difficulties, which otherwise might have been insuperable, were overcome; and thus it was that the sentries stationed at the mouth of the black ravine, which led to the fortress palace of the Queen, were now hourly expecting the appearance of the princes.
'That you can learn only in the mountains of the Ansarey, said Darkush, with a malignant smile. Baroni fell into a musing mood. After a few moments' thought, he looked up, and said: 'What you have told me, friend Darkush, is very interesting, and throws light on many things.
'A woman! exclaimed Tancred and Fakredeen. 'They say as much, said Sheikh Hamood; 'perhaps it is only a coffee-house tale. 'I never heard it before, said Fakredeen. 'In the time of my uncle, Elderidis was Sheikh. I have heard indeed that the Ansarey worship a woman. 'Then they would be Christians, said Sheikh Hamood, 'and I never heard that. The Laurellas
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