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How I envied Fenton at this time, because no girls asked him what men they ought to marry; or implored him to prevent men from jilting them; or urged him to enlighten handsome sculptors with wavy, soft hair, and hard eyes resembling the crystal orbs which were to become fashionable in Society! Anthony loved Assuan, and apparently enjoyed displaying its beauties.
Though navigation here is difficult, and a strong breeze is necessary to enable vessels to ascend the river, boat sailing is a popular feature of European life in Assuan, a special kind of sailing-boat being kept for visitors, who organize regattas and enjoy many a pleasant picnic beneath the shade of the dôm palms or mimosa-trees which grow among the rocks.
Fancy living at what was the name of the town again?" "Assuan," answered Peer indifferently, looking out over the gardens, where more and more visitors kept arriving. "They say the barrage is as great a miracle as the Pyramids. How many sluice-gates are there again a hundred and . . . ?" "Two hundred and sixteen," said Peer. "Look!" he broke off. "Do you know those girls over there?"
We made our way across the sand, into which our donkeys' feet sank above their fetlocks, to the bazaars of Assuan. These bazaars deserve more than a passing mention, as they are unlike any that I ever saw.
The guide said that these huge blocks of granite had been brought from quarries at Assuan, far up the Nile, but he could not tell how the ancient Egyptians had been able to handle the monoliths. "My theory may not be correct," said the professor, as we turned to him for a reply to the query "but I will state it.
In all this busy and complicated movement of troops the Egyptian War Office worked smoothly, and clearly showed the ability with which it was organised. The line of communications from Cairo, the permanent base, to the advanced post at Akasha was 825 miles in length. But of this distance only the section lying south of Assuan could be considered as within the theatre of war.
"Take care of sand-flies," Michael said. Millicent's sleeve was rolled up. "Are there any here? I've not been troubled with them." "No, probably not they are the plague of Upper Egypt." "They were awful at Assuan. It's awfully hot, Michael!" Millicent referred to the sand. She withdrew her arm. "Give me your hand just feel it." She pulled up his sleeve and took his hand.
The Jews take spoil and booty and retreat to the mountains, and no man can prevail against them. Many of these Jews of the land of Aden come to Persia and Egypt . Thence to the land of Assuan is a journey of twenty days through the desert. There is a people among them who, like animals, eat of the herbs that grow on the banks of the Nile and in the fields.
It came to Assuan too late, and Sir Marcus Lark brought it to the boat. I found it that night when we got back from Philae. But I haven't told, because I dared not be with you alone long enough to speak of private affairs, till I could decide whether to let you know I loved you, or make believe I didn't care a scrap." "As if I could have believed your tongue, unless you had shut your eyes!
I happened to know that he proposed a dash from Cairo to Assuan by train, for I had received two telegrams at the moment of walking off the boat. The first message announced his almost immediate advent; the second regretted unavoidable delay, but expressed an intention not to let us steam away for Wady Halfa without seeing him.
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