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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... The two families had arranged this suitable match. They were of similar social and financial standing, and everything was perfectly understood and agreeable to all concerned. During Thursday, occasionally the day before, the bridegroom will have gone to the mosque for certain formalities, but it is never ...
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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. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... The two families had arranged this suitable match. They were of similar social and financial standing, and everything was perfectly understood and agreeable to all concerned. During Thursday, occasionally the day before, the bridegroom will have gone to the mosque for certain formalities, but it is never necessary for the bride to appear there. On Friday occurs the real celebration--that part of the ceremony most interesting to the visitor; and to this I was formally bidden, a summons not to be lightly regarded. One of the best houses in Tripoli, the central courtyard was finely paved with pale green tiles, balconies and woodwork matching the same delicate shade. Windows and open doorways gave access to the rooms within; and all available space--galleries, rooms, court--was filled with female friends of the high contracting parties. In a line around the sides sat forty or fifty women, attractively youthful in aspect, but powdered to ghastly whiteness, and with vivid crimson triangles painted on either cheek. Their eyebrows were heavily emphasized in black, meeting above the nose and extending across the temples to the hair. Brilliant aniline dyes, so dearly loved in the East that they have nearly superseded the soft old vegetable colours of a more artistic past, appeared in dazzling combination. Short skirts, full trousers, blouses, sleeveless jackets, silk and velvet, all thickly embroidered in gold and silver, showed every conceivable colour--crimson, pink, scarlet, yellow, cobalt-blue, grass-green--until brocades and gauze, flowers, chains, bracelets, all melted into one bewildering whole, overpoweringly brilliant, gaudy, theatrical., The little bride, rigidly immovable as the changeless etiquette of centuries has decreed, center of all eyes, ..
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