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I outlined an ambition, but its outworking was a problem. It was beyond his ken. He could not take in the scope of it. Anna could, for she had it from the day she first felt the movement of life in me. It was unpretentious nothing the world would call great. "Och, maan, but that wud be th' proud day fur Anna if ye cud do it." When the town clock struck eleven, Anna trembled.
After passing Hackenoes, a tiny hamlet of two or three houses, built upon a rocky promontory laved by the narrow fiord into which the Maan empties, the lake begins to widen rapidly.
In October and November, 1917, about the time of the third battle of Gaza, the Turks were still in Maan, and tried to assume the offensive against the Arabs, but proved too weak to succeed. After the fall of Jerusalem, the Turks withdrew to some extent, and the Arabs advanced towards the lands east of the Dead Sea.
Beginning northward with the small town of Deir on the Euphrates, we can trace a line of these oases that form advanced points towards the Desert all the way south as far as Medina. Deir, Sokhne, Tedmor, Djof, Maan, Ola, Khaibar, and Teyme, are all inhabited by Bedouins, who cultivate the soil, and form an intermediate class between Bedouins and peasants.
These fashions pertain to none but Maan ben Zaideh; so let each of us recite somewhat of verse in his praise. Then said the first: He heads his shafts with gold and shooting at his foes, Dispenses thus largesse and bounties far and wide, Giving the wounded man wherewith to get him cure And grave-clothes unto him must in the tombs abide.
'What does ye maan by that? demanded the Irishman, instantly flaring up; 'does ye maan to insinooate that she isn't the most charming craater in the whole counthry? 'You'll allow me to except my own Seraphenia? 'Niver a once. 'Then I'll do it whether you like it or not Your gal can't begin with mine, and never could. 'That I don't allow any man to say.
One day Eystein endeavored to reach his betrothed, the beautiful Marie of Vesfjorddal, by this dangerous path. His sweetheart was holding out her arms to him from the other side of the gorge, when suddenly he lost his footing, fell, slipped further and further down the ledge of rock which is as smooth as glass, and disappeared forever in the seething rapids of the Maan.
He experienced a feeling of suffocation in the dwelling over which such a dense cloud of misfortune seemed to be hanging. He longed for the outer air, the fierce blast of the tempest, and spent a part of the night in wandering aimlessly up and down the banks of the Maan. Sylvius Hogg was therefore left alone. Stunned by the stroke at first, he soon recovered his wonted energy.
'And if he say, "Too much"? said Maan. 'Then three hundred, replied the other. 'And if he say yet, "Too much"? 'Then two hundred. 'And yet, "Too much"? 'Then one hundred. 'And yet, "Too much"? 'Then fifty. 'And yet, "Too much"? 'Then thirty. 'And if he still say, "Too much"? said Maan ben Zaideh.
As he watched her he thought, "If I was to touch her I should break her." Then the conversation began. "I was sorry," he said, "to hear yo was so poorly, Miss Cartaret." "I'm all right now. You can see I'm all right." He shook his head. "I saw yo' a moonth ago, and I didn't think then I sud aver see yo' at Oopthorne again." He paused. "'E's a woonderful maan, Dr. Rawcliffe." "He is," said Alice.
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