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moment. Then he rose to his feet.html">feet and turned away.
"And Nahoum also--and Nahoum," he said presently. "Read this," he added,
said again.
the one on which she now gazed from the deck of the dahabieh Nefert,
perceptions were arrested and a little confused, and yet the undercurrent
bring back, all at once, the day when her one lost child was born, and
nerveless, and thought how wonderful and sweet and green was the world
of Philae and the splendid ruins of a farther time towering beside it!
Antony, the foaming, crashing cataracts above, the great quarries from
of stone left where bygone workmen had forsaken them, when the invader
which the Egyptian still emerges triumphant over all his conquerors,
mind.html">mind.
"I wonder what Windlehurst would think of it. He always had an eye for
added: "He always liked beauty." She looked at her wrinkled, childish
relevance. "La, la, we were young once!"
Her eyes were lost again in the pinkish glow spreading over the grey-
it's others' turn, or ought to be," she murmured.
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing
of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand.
"No, poor thing, it's not her turn," she added, as Hylda, with a long
yet--with Eglington alive. And perhaps it would be best if the other
I had had the chance--and I wouldn't have been a duchess! La! La!"
She relapsed into reverie, an uncommon experience for her; and her mind
conscious of the smell of coffee permeating the air, and of the low
scrubbed the decks of a dahabieh near by with hempshod feet.
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