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And I could imagine it looking profoundly grave, not sad, among the columns with their opening lotus flowers. For it is the hall of lotus columns that Ibrahim calls the thinking-place of the king. There is something both lovely and touching to me in the lotus columns of Egypt, in the tall masses of stone opening out into flowers near the sun. Near the sun!
It actually arrived not a great while after luncheon, when he was feeling as if he would like to sit down by himself and think over this very curious piece of political business. He went up into the library, as the safest kind of thinking-place, and, hardly had he opened the door, before he discovered that it had another tenant besides the man in armor in the corner.
Among these personalities Medinet-Abu is the warrior, standing like Mentu, with the solar disk, and the two plumes erect above his head of a hawk, firmly planted at the foot of the Theban mountains, ready to repel all enemies, to beat back all assaults, strong and determined, powerful and brutally serene. "This, my lord, is the thinking-place of Rameses the Great."
"The thinking-place of Rameses the Great!" "Suttinly." "You must leave me alone here, Ibrahim." I watched his gold-colored robe vanish into the gold of the sun through the copper color of the columns. And I was quite alone in the "thinking-place" of Rameses.
This, all this, and more, I wanted in myself. There was a place a mile or so along the road where the hills could be seen much better; I went there frequently to think the same thought. Another spot was by an elm, a very short walk, where openings in the trees, and the slope of the ground, brought the hills well into view. This too, was a favourite thinking-place.
I could not be sad, though I could be happily thoughtful, in the light of the Ramesseum. And even when I left the thinking-place, and, coming down the central aisle, saw in the immersing sunshine of the Osiride Court the fallen colossus of the king, I was not struck to sadness.
No book, mind! nothing to fill your thinking-place from auother's! People are always saying 'I think, when they are not thinking at all, when they are at best only passing the thoughts of others whom they do not even know. "When you have got quite alone, when you do not even know the nearest point to anybody, sit down and be lonely.
No book, mind! nothing to fill your thinking-place from auother's! People are always saying 'I think, when they are not thinking at all, when they are at best only passing the thoughts of others whom they do not even know. "When you have got quite alone, when you do not even know the nearest point to anybody, sit down and be lonely.
"Why didn't you tell me before?" "I forgot. How could I think of riches with you filling up all the thinking-place!" "But what am I to do to-night?" "To-night? oh! I hadn't thought of that! We'll ask Aggie." So Aggie was once more called, and consulted. She thought for a minute, then said, "Cosmo, as sune's ye're hame, ye'll sen' yer manstrauchtawa'upo'the horse to lat my lady's fowk ken.
But it passed almost as it came, like a false thing slinking from the sunlight, and Domini bowed her head in the obscurity of Count Anteoni's thinking-place and returned to her true self.
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