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Updated: May 4, 2025
'It must be the Druses who circulate these enormous falsehoods. 'Hush! said Young Syria, in the shape of Francis El Kazin, 'there is no longer Maronite or Druse: we are all Syrians, we are brothers. 'Then a good many of my brothers are sons of Eblis, said Butros Keramy. 'I hope he is not my father. 'Truly, I should like to see the mountain without the Maronite nation, said Rafael Farah.
At length they called again for rice, a custom which intimated that their appetite for meat was satisfied, and immediately Nubian slaves covered them with towels of fine linen fringed with gold, and, while they held their hands over the basin, poured sweet waters from the ewer. In the meantime, Butros Keramy opened his heart to Rafael Farah.
And the Druse chief of the House of Djezbek, who for five hundred years had never yielded precedence to the House of Djinblat, and Sheikh Fahour Kangé, who since the civil war had never smoked a pipe with a Maronite, but who now gave the salaam of peace to the crowds of Habeishs and Dahdahes who passed by; and Butros Keramy, the nephew of the patriarch, himself a great Sheikh, who inhaled his nargileh as he rode, and who looked to the skies and puffed forth his smoke whenever he met a son of Eblis; and the House of Talhook, and the House of Abdel-Malek and a swarm of Elvasuds, and Elheires, and El Dahers, Emirs and Sheikhs on their bounding steeds, and musketeers on foot, with their light jackets and bare legs and wooden sandals, and black slaves, carrying vases and tubes; everywhere a brilliant and animated multitude, and all mounting the winding steep of Canobia.
We have done mighty things truly with our Maronite nation! 'To hear an El Kazin speak against the Maronite nation! exclaimed Rafael Farah, with a look of horror; 'a natipn that has two hundred convents! 'And a patriarch, said Butros Keramy, 'very much respected even by the Pope of Rome. 'And who were disarmed like sheep, said Francis.
'He is sent here, I understand, said Butros Keramy, 'to ascertain for the Queen of the English whether the country is in favour of the Shehaabs. Could you believe it, but I was told yesterday at Deir el Kamar, that the English consul has persuaded the Queen that even the patriarch was against the Shehaabs? 'Is it possible? said Rafael Farah, a Maronite of the House of Eldadah.
'This is a great day for Syria! to find the chiefs of both nations assembled at the castle of a Shehaab. Why am I here but to preach peace and love? And Butros Keramy, my friend, my dearly beloved brother Butros, if you wish to please the patriarch, your uncle, who loves you so well, you will no longer call Druses sons of Eblis. 'What are we to call them? asked Rafael Farah, pettishly.
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