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Updated: June 15, 2025
Just now the head of Deenah bent low over the open pack, the movement of his hand instantly drawing and filling the eye of the trader from Kabul; and then it was that the Sahiba's syce, who was a huge man, materialised a lakri from under his long cotton tunic the lakri being a stick of olive-wood from High Himalaya and very hard.
He tried to help her, waking to the fact that she was as strong as he, if not stronger. The room in a minute looked as usual, and she knelt in front of the hearth, piling up a kindling of pine-cones and little fagots, on which she laid a picturesque old root of olive-wood. "You seem to be alone," he remarked. "Yes; Estelle's gone out." He was not sorry to hear it.
As the girl spoke there was a slight sound in the room beyond the big, open window. "What's that?" exclaimed Roger. "Who is there?" "Nobody," said Virginia. "It must be a log of olive-wood falling in the fireplace." Roger waited. He knew that Virginia was gathering her forces together, and that he might expect the unexpected.
That alley led into another where a dozen midwives had their names and claims to excellency painted on the doors an alley carefully to be avoided, because women of that trade, like barbers, vied for custom by disseminating gossip. He drummed a signal with his knuckles on the panel of a narrow door of olive-wood, set deep into the wall under a projecting arch.
And he bought a great package, enough to set the whole village sneezing to the end of the war, and peering round the tiny shop and espying in the recesses of a glass case a little olive-wood box ornamented on the top with pansies and forget-me-nots, purchased that also. He had just paid when his companions put their heads in the doorway.
"You need not make yourself unhappy on that point your poor return for his love, my dear," said Lyndall. "A man's love is a fire of olive-wood. It leaps higher every moment; it roars, it blazes, it shoots out red flames; it threatens to wrap you round and devour you you who stand by like an icicle in the glow of its fierce warmth.
For them alone they left the middle bench just as it was and not by lot; and with one consent they entrusted Tiphys with guarding the helm of the well-stemmed ship. Next, piling up shingle near the sea, they raised there an altar on the shore to Apollo, under the name of Actius and Embasius, and quickly spread above it logs of dried olive-wood.
The stony track brought her at last to the corner of the enclosure of olive-trees belonging to the monastery; it branched here, one path leading straight to the gates of the building, the other skirting the olive-wood plantation, and then passing on out into the barren hills and open country towards Jericho.
She was perpetually adding to her store of articles in tortoise-shell, in mother-of-pearl, in olive-wood, in ivory, in filigree, in tartan lacquer, in mosaic; and she had a collection of Roman scarfs and Venetian beads, which she looked over exhaustively every night before she went to bed. Her conversation bore mainly upon the manner in which she intended to dispose of these accumulations.
There they may weave and stitch as much as you like; but as man and wife no one shall part us, and we will lead a life such a life! The joys of Paradise shall be no better than a rap on the skull with an olive-wood log in comparison!" He tried to take her hand again, but she drew it away, saying in deep confusion and without looking up: "No, Rustem.
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