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To celebrate it he had invited the stewards of his lands, the notables of Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator of Judæa, the emir of Tadmor, mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and herdsmen. But in the valley only a few shepherds were visible. Along the ramparts soldiers paced. At the further end of the terrace a group of domestics was busy with hampers and luggage.
If I tell Miss Sally this, sir, how do you say it will end? Will you bet me a shilling it has no effect on her?" "I won't bet a farthing! Follow the boy and tell young Sally I have sent her a better doctor than I am." While Toff was on his way to Sally, Toff's boy was disturbing Amelius by the announcement of a visitor. The card sent in bore this inscription: "Brother Bawkwell, from Tadmor."
Westward there were probably two chief lines of trade with Syria and the adjacent countries. Thence it bent southwards, and, passing through Tadmor, was directed upon Phoenicia most likely by way of Damascus. Another took a more northern line by the Mons Masius to Harran and Seruj, crossing the Euphrates at Bir, and thence communicating both with Upper Syria and with Asia Minor.
Besides the temple, palace and other great buildings at the capitol, Solomon undertook various other great building enterprises. He built many great cities not only in the territory of ancient Palestine but in his now extended empire. The most famous of these were Tadmor or Palmyra and Baalath, or Baalbic.
The Elder Brother, at Tadmor, used to say it was sympathy. But he is a sentimentalist. Well, Mr. Farnaby presented me to his wife and then walked away as if he was sick of us both, and looked out of the window. For some reason or other, Mrs. Farnaby seemed to be surprised, for the moment, by my personal appearance. Her husband had, very likely, not told her how young I was.
Thither, under an assumed name, I brought my bride, and there was the greater part of my time spent. Oh the intoxication of that sweet Elysium, that Tadmor in life's desert, the possession of the one whom we have first loved! It is as if poetry, and music, and light, and the fresh breath of flowers, were all blended into one being, and from that being rose our existence!
But my marriage depends on my adding to my income; and the first attempt I've made to do it has ended in a total failure. I'm all abroad again, when I look to the future and I'm afraid I'm fool enough to let it weigh on my spirits. No, the cocktail isn't the right remedy for me. I don't get the exercise and fresh air, here, that I used to get at Tadmor.
In this event, as you know, our laws provide that the decision rests with the Elder Brother who gave his vote thereupon for considering the remission of the sentence; and moved the next resolution that the sentence be remitted accordingly. Carried by a small majority. Whereupon, Sister Mellicent was received again at Tadmor."
In the first three editions of Boswell we find Tadnor for Tadmor. In Dodsley's Collection, iv. 229, the last couplet is as follows: 'Or Tadmor's marble wastes survey, Or in yon roofless cloister stray. Ann. Reg. xxii 79. See ante, under Dec. 17, 1775. In 1757 two battalions of Highlanders were raised and sent to North America. Gent. Mag. xxvii. 42, 333.
And, besides, you're old enough to be my father; it's my duty to call you Mister or Sir, as we say to our elders at Tadmor. I have left all my friends behind me at the Community and I feel lonely out here on this big ocean, among strangers. Do me a kindness, sir. Call me by my Christian name; and give me a friendly slap on the back if you find we get along smoothly in the course of the day."
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