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Updated: May 13, 2025
I said to Richard, "That tree and that spring have been created for each other, like you and I." We took our kayf for some hours with the Arabs, and we had some delicious Arab coffee and narghileh with them. We remained a fortnight in Egypt, or rather more; and after then we embarked in another Lloyd's, the Apollo, for Trieste, where we arrived very quickly.
Here opens the well-known view perpetuated by every photographer first the blue bay, then the sheet of white houses gradually rising in the distance. Donde crece la escola Nace el asno que la roya. And there, straight before us, lies the city, softly couched against the hill-side that faces the southern sea, and enjoying her 'kayf' in the sinking sun. I now see some change since 1865.
Here was rich color; here arose a softly perfumed air, balmy, incensed as with strange aromatics. Here was peace eternal kayf blessed rest here indeed lay a scene that gave full explanation of the ancient name "Arabia Felix." And at the left, dominating all this beauty, shone and glimmered in the ardent sun the wondrous Golden City of Jannati Shahr.
After ablution, once more this time the white men shared it tobacco, pomegranate syrup, sherbet, water perfumed with mastich-smoke, and thick, black coffee ended the meal. The Master requested khat leaves, which were presently brought him deliciously green and fresh in a copper bowl. Then, while the slave-girls removed all traces of the feast, all relaxed for a few minutes' kayf, or utter peace.
The Master sat down, chewed a few leaves and indulged in a little time of what the Arabs call kayf, or complete relaxation and inner contemplation a restful trick he had learned many years ago on the coast of Yemen.
Chaucer, let us note, had been of the same mind: "The smyler with the kayf under his cloke," and so on, in lines not to be matched for hasty and dreadful suggestion. Swiftness and stealth, the ambush, the averted face and the sudden stab, are the standing elements of murder: pare off all the rest, you come down to that. Your staring looks, your blood, your "chirking," are accidentals.
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