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Updated: June 29, 2025
He did not recognize my voice but his curiosity was large enough to make him throw down his hammer, take off the glasses that protected his eyes and stare at me. "Maan, yer changed," he said, "aren't you?" "And you?" "Och, shure, I'm th' same ould sixpence!" "Except that you're older!" There was a look of disappointment on his face. "Maan," he said, "ye talk like quality d'ye live among thim?"
D'ye know, that night I cud hear th' aisiest whisper frum her lips I cud that. She groped fur m' han; 'Jamie, says she, 'it's nearly over, dear. "'God love ye, says I. "'Aye, says she, 'if He'll jist love me as ye've done it'll be fine. Knowin' what a rough maan I'd been, I cudn't thole it. "'Th' road's been gey rocky an' we've made many mistakes.
The valley contracted, squeezing the Maan between the interlocking bases of the mountains, through which, in the course of uncounted centuries, it had worn itself a deep groove, cut straight and clean into the heart of the rock. The loud, perpetual roar of the vexed waters filled the glen; the only sound except the bleating of goats clinging to the steep pastures above us.
They came up before their time, so I gathered the best of them and set out to carry them to the Amir Maan ben Zaideh, because of his well-known generosity and notorious munificence. 'How much cost thou hope to get of him? asked Maan, and the Bedouin answered, 'A thousand diners. 'What if he say, "This is too much"? quoth Maan. 'Then I will ask five hundred diners, said the Bedouin.
To the east lies the bailiwick of Numedal; On the west, the Hardanger and its magnificent glaciers; down at the base of the mountain, the winding valley of Vesfjorddal between Lakes Tinn and Mjos, Dal, and its miniature houses, and the bright waters of the Maan leaping and dancing merrily along through the verdant meadows to the music of its own voice.
"Give us only a quarter of an hour," replied Hulda; "and we will set before you a nice trout from the Maan, a grouse that Joel shot in the Hardanger yesterday, and a bottle of French wine." "Thank you, my dear child, thank you!" Hulda left the room to superintend the dinner and set the table, while Joel took the kariol back to Lengling's stable.
"Says I t' m'self at last, 'Aye, 'deed there must be th' spark there what Anna talks about! Jist then I heard yer mother's voice as plain as I hear m' own now at this minute an' what d'ye think Anna says?" "I don't know, Willie." "'So ye haave th' Son ov Maan t' dinner th' day? 'Aye, says I. "'An' givin' 'im yer lavins! "It was like a piece ov stone cuttin' the ball ov m' eye. It cut deep!
In a few moments the girl returned and quietly explained that a wandering musician had halted on the lawn and was performing on some sort of a wind instrument. "He's a bery funny-lookin' maan, Mr. Merriwell," grinned the girl. "He suttinly am wearin' de oddest clo'es Ah eber seen.
It was nearly two hours before the old farmer returned with the information that the horses would be at Mael as soon as we; but we lay upon the bank for some time after arriving there, watching the postillions swim them across the mouth of the Maan Elv.
This is at no great distance from Maan, an important depot on the Hejaz Railway, the last outpost of Syria at the edge of the desert of North Arabia. From Akaba, the railway was now attacked at Maan, with serious results to Medina; nevertheless, that city continued to hold out, and was probably never very closely invested.
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