This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...willing to confess that my death at any rate will have been deserved." He was thinking of Miriam. The hopeless melancholy of this speech perhaps saved Akabi's life. His hot headed assailant noticed for the first time that the man whom he accused of sporting in the palaces of princes was a bruised and shattered wreck, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...willing to confess that my death at any rate will have been deserved." He was thinking of Miriam. The hopeless melancholy of this speech perhaps saved Akabi's life. His hot headed assailant noticed for the first time that the man whom he accused of sporting in the palaces of princes was a bruised and shattered wreck, far more like an ideal Essene than himself. During this pause a man in armour appeared upon the scene. It was Argob. CHAPTER XIX "Go prepare me a bier of strong wood longer than the Bridge of Mayence, and bring twelve giants stronger than St. Christopher of Cologne Cathedral on the Rhine. They will carry the coffin and fling it into the sea, so large a coffin needs a large grave. Would you know why the bier must be so long and large? With myself I will lay there all my love and all my sorrow."--HEINE. Blue, blue, the richest ultramarine blue, cloudless, spotless is the sky. Blue, blue, the richest ultramarine blue, is the calm sea. White, white, a clean blinding white, are the graceful Egyptian columns of the Temple of Amen Ra, with their papyrus leaf capitals. And the Governor's palace and the other buildings that cluster at the water's edge are equally white. And intermediately on galley and barge are quadrates, ternaries, all the harmonious tints of subdued reds and oranges, dashed in by Tehuti or Thoth, the god who invented "the palette and the ink jar." Mark these three galleys drawn up in a line. They are the war galleys of Ptolemy, most necessary galleys to protect his new commerce from the hostility of the Arabians, who deemed the trade of India their private enterprise. Each of these vessels has three banks of oars. Each has the turris at the stern, rising storey over storey with embrasures or windows through w...
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