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In spite of this slovenliness in detail there is colour and light in all recollections of Baghdad's dusty streets. Somehow the discomfort and squalor is soon forgotten and the romance and picturesqueness of these far-off streets remains as a very pleasant memory amidst the winter fogs and coldness of our northern lands.
Baghdad's the old Arab capital, and that'll do for a beginning; after that it's up to the Arabs themselves." "Well? Where does my gold mine come in?" Jeremy asked. "Feisul has no money. If it was made clear to him that he could serve the Arabs best by going to London, he'd consider it.
No blue, limpid waters by Baghdad's shrines of fretted gold, but pea-soup or café au lait. Even the churned foam from a paddle wheel is café au lait with what a blue-jacket contemptuously referred to as "a little more of the au lait!" At a distance it can be blue, gloriously blue, by reflection from the sky, but it will not bear close examination.
The level of the water was far above the usual height and came up to the very thresholds of these riverside houses. We floated on, sometimes under the walls of dark gardens, sometimes getting glimpses of interiors interiors which in this glamour of night romance suggested something of the splendour of Baghdad's old glory:
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