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Windows would open and all Tarascon would watch with pride the stage-coach setting off along the king's highway. "What a fine road it was, Monsieur Tartarin, wide and well kept, with its kilometre markers, its heaps of roadmender's stones at regular intervals, and to right and left vinyards and pretty groves of olive trees.
Farewell! It is a roadmender's word; I cry you Godspeed to the next milestone and beyond.
The little incident was as illustrative of the effects of Islam as the peace within the courts of el-Azhar. Michael sat in the cemetery, which had seemed to him to be of no more consequence than a heap of stones by the wayside, awaiting the roadmender's hammer. Yet, with the strange inconsequence of Orientals, it was evidently a sacred spot. It had its pilgrims and its uses.
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