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"Yes, but I shan't be working so hard as you do." She went to the tent-door. "How long shall we be in the Fayyūm?" she asked, carelessly. "How long were you in it last year?" "Off and on for nearly six months." She said nothing. He struck a match and lit a cigar. "But of course now it's different," he said. "If you like it, we can stay on, and if you don't we can go back presently to the villa."
"I wish it wasn't so horribly cold," she said. And Baroudi was away in the gold of the south, and perhaps with the "Full Moon." "It won't be half so bad when we get to Mena House. There's always a wind on this road in winter." "And in the Fayyūm? Will it be cold there?" "No, not like this. Only at nights it gets cold sometimes, and there's often a thick mist." "A thick mist!"
He got up and walked about his room, still smoking his cigar. His babouches shuffled over the carpet. He kicked them off, and went on walking, with bare, brown feet. Often in the Fayyūm he had gone barefoot, like his labourers. What was he going to do to help on the slow turning of the mighty wheel of progress?
Armine still lay awake, felt as if the cessation of the singing had made her less capable of sleeping. When Nigel came to fetch her away to the tent in the Fayyūm, what then? She would not think about that, but she would obey her temperament. She had two weeks of freedom before her, she who had had so many years of freedom. She had only two weeks.
He must mean something, he must mean much; or why was Hamza out here in the green depths of the Fayyûm? Nigel had gone to Sennoures to order provisions, leaving her to rest after the journey from Cairo. She got up from the sofa in the sitting-room tent, which was comfortable in a very simple way but not at all luxurious, went to the opening, and looked out.
Accustomed for years to have all her caprices obeyed, all her whims indulged by men, she did not know how she was going to endure this situation, which a passionate love alone could have made tolerable. And the man by her side had that passionate love which made the dreary Fayyûm his Heaven. She could almost have struck him because he was so happy.
"Then as a friend or as an enemy?" "As a friend of his." "Of whom?" "Of Nigel Armine." "Because he is working in the Fayyūm, may not I go up the Nile?" "If you were on the Nile, Armine would not be in the Fayyūm." "You are anxious about his reclaiming of the desert? Have you put money into his land scheme?"
But we only saw him about twice, except on the ship coming out. He dined here one night, and the next day we went over the Loulia with him, and we've never set eyes on him since. He went up river, and we went down, to the Fayyūm." "But but you went off alone to the Fayyūm, didn't you? At first, I mean?" "Oh, yes. The morning after Baroudi had sailed for Armant." "And Mrs.
South of Lisht is Illahun, and at the entrance to the province of the Fayyûm, and west of this, nearer the Fayyûm, is Hawara, where Prof.
Some time after Alexander the Great, the Egyptian papyrus became common in Palestine, where it probably was known earlier, as Jewish letters on papyrus were sent to Jerusalem from the Fayyum in the fifth century B.C.E. Even as late as Maimonides, the scrolls of the Law were written on leather, and not on parchment, which is now the ordinary material for the purpose.
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