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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Dost thou not know the saying that the smile of a beautiful maiden is the deglet nour of Paradise, and nourishes a man's soul, so that he can bear any discomfort without being conscious that he suffers?" "I did not know that Arab men set women so high," said Victoria, surprised; for now the rain had stopped, suddenly as it began, and she could look out again from between the curtains.
"A little more, and we could not have crossed," said Maïeddine, when they had mounted up safely on the other side of the oued. "Art thou not very wet and miserable?" the girl asked sympathetically. "I miserable?" he echoed. "I who am privileged to feast upon the deglet nour, in my desert?"
Victoria did not understand his metaphor, for the deglet nour is the finest of all dates, translucent as amber, sweet as honey, and so dear that only rich men or great marabouts ever taste it. "The deglet nour?" she repeated, puzzled.
"Thine advice is of the value of many dates, even of the deglet nour, the jewel date, which only the rich can eat." The old man laid his hand, still strong and firm, on his son's shoulder, and together they went into the great tent, that part of it where the women were, for all were closely related to them, excepting the Roumia, who had been received as a daughter of the house.
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