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We have to leave this boat at Assouan, but we shall come back and go right down the Nile to Cairo on our return journey, so that is something to look forward to.
Lady Claire looked up quickly. Her voice showed her struck with sudden surprise. "You are going so soon?" "To-morrow." "To Assouan?" Odd sharpness edged the question. He waited a perceptible moment, though his resolution had been taken. "Back to Cairo." "Oh ... How long shall you be there?" "Just till I get sailings. It's time for me to be off.
About three or four days' journey to the E. and S.E. of Beishe, the plain is covered with numerous encampments of the Kahtan Arabs, one of the most ancient tribes, that flourished long before Mohammed, in the idolatrous ages. Some of these Beni Kahtan emigrated to Egypt, where the historian Mesoudi knew them as inhabitants of Assouan.
But he has the case in charge, and has gone up to Assouan to meet us there. Shall you run up to Khartoum?" "I may." "All these things are done so easily now." "Yes." "The railway has made everything so simple." "Yes." "I'd give worlds to go to Khartoum. People say it's much more interesting than anything up to the First Cataract." "Then why not go there?" "Perhaps we may. But not just yet.
Only a young American doctor, very susceptible indeed to female charm, had been permitted to set foot on her decks. He had diagnosed "sunstroke," had prescribed for Nigel Armine, and had come away "positively raving" about Mrs. Armine "silly fellow." Isaacson would have liked a word with him, but he had gone to Assouan. On the lower deck the boatmen began to sing. Isaacson paced to and fro.
Still, although this step of mine forced me to leave Cairo and go to Assouan, then a little-known place, to practise chiefly among the natives, God knows we were happy enough together till the plague took her, and with it my joy in life. I pass over all that business, since there are some things too dreadful and too sacred to write about.
And always he leant upon the rail, and he watched the creeping felucca, and he wished that he were in it, going to see his friend. What was he going to do? Again he began to pace the deck. It was not very far to Assouan Gebel Silsile, Kom Ombos, then Assouan. It was some hundred and ten kilometres. The steamers did it in thirteen hours.
Soon they would be level with the Loulia. A little later the Loulia would lie behind them. A little later still, and she would be out of their sight. "God knows when they'll be at Assouan!" Isaacson found himself saying that.
Rapidly we fly down-stream, past Abu Simbel, past the sweeps of deep rich yellow sand seen nowhere south of Assouan in such glorious colouring; sand that is swept smooth by the wind into great banks and drifts with sharp edges like snow-drifts; past masses of plum-coloured rock sticking up out of it; past defiles of stony mountains falling sheer to the water; hiding here and there in their folds tiny villages indistinguishable from the rocks without glasses.
"Of course it's not gospel-truth," replied the voice of the hotel's biggest-gossip-bar-none, who, on account of her abnormal interest in other people's affairs, had earned the sobriquet of Paulina Pry, "but some people I know who were at Heliopolis and have just come from Assouan told me that Mr.
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