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They rose from the table and sadly shook their heads, prepared for the worst. They knew their sirocco. As morning wore on other stragglers entered the premises, muffled up to the ears; they scattered ashes from their cloaks and hastily closed the door behind them. More lamps were lighted. The news was not inspiring.
In order to shun its effects, people sometimes shut themselves up in their houses, as they do in Italy when the sirocco is blowing. I even imagined that its purity might explain its exciting property.
Daniel Granger, after going half way to Marseilles, with a notion of exploring Algiers and Morocco, had stopped short, and made his way by road and rail through sirocco, clouds of dust, and much inconvenience to Liege, where he had lingered to recover and calm himself down a little before going to see his child.
It is of no use, therefore, to excite one's self for or against revolutions which have only an importance of the second order an importance which I do not wish either to diminish or to ignore, but an importance which, after all, is mostly negative. The political life is but the means of the true life. October 26, 1870. Sirocco. A bluish sky.
The heat, the burning atmosphere which makes you feverish, those suffocating blasts of wind from the south, those waves of fire which come from the desert which is so near us, that oppressive sirocco, which is more destructive and withering than fire, that perpetual conflagration of an entire continent, that is burnt even to its stones by a fierce and devouring sun, inflame the blood, excite the flesh, and make brutes of us.
Firewood is kept in halls where costly treasures might be heaped up, mountains high; waterfalls are dry and choked; fountains, too dull to play, and too lazy to work, have just enough recollection of their identity, in their sleep, to make the neighbourhood damp; and the sirocco wind is often blowing over all these things for days together, like a gigantic oven out for a holiday.
He had been many moments dangling his cap, in habitual but unembarrassed respect, before his presence was observed. "Ha! thou here, Antonio!" exclaimed the senator, when their eyes met. "Why this visit?" "Signore, my heart is heavy." "Hath the calendar no saint the fisherman no patron? I suppose the sirocco hath been tossing the waters of the bay, and thy nets are empty.
And of course, if one begins to brood over accidentals like the weather, one is sure to become a lunatic sooner or later. Weather was not made for that purpose. If you come to think of it, how few days there are when a man can honestly say that the weather is quite to his liking! It is nearly always too hot or too cold or too wet or too dry or too windy. I don't trouble myself about sirocco.
A ringing came in my ears as when one puts a seashell to them and hears the drowsy murmur of the tides. My cigarette fell from my fingers. A sirocco blew upon me, hot, stifling. Kivi laughed, and dimly I heard his inquiry: "Veavea? Is it hot?" "E, mahanahana. I am very warm," I struggled to reply. My voice sounded as that of another. I leaned harder against the wall and closed my eyes.
I do hope, princess, that you will find her quite recovered on your return. I think it must be the effect of sirocco." The other guests supported her in chorus. "The sirocco is very treacherous," ventured one. "She was perhaps not acclimatized to Rome," said a second. "I thought she looked pale," chimed a third. The princess made her adieus at once and, followed by Giovanni, left the palace.
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