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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: long loose hair about her wrist, the candle in the swinging lamp by the bed suddenly flared high in its socket and then went out. And I never read one of George's letters after all, she said to herself reproachfully as siie groped her way into bed in the dark; CHAPTER IV. . AS THEY SAILED. ... And sailed right into the harbor thus With pomp and pxun glorious. ? I'auacelsus. palm-trees remind you of any thing, Miss Hamlyn ? To me they seem like Heine's songs ? endless delicate variations on the old old theme ? the desire for what is not. Each stem shoots into the air like a wish, and the waving leaves atop seem to droop earthward again with a sigh over the unattainable. And they have all the restlessness of unsatisfied desire as well. Have you never noticed how their branches are for ever waving, even when there is not a breath of air astir ? Of all trees I think they are the most sensitive to changes in the weather, remarked Mrs. Meredith; they seem to shiver and grow dull and pale when the days are cold; and I have seen them turn a livid gray and lose all their beauty, tossing to and fro on the wind from the north. Lunch was over on the Ibis. They had all come up on deck, and were lounging about on the divans, waiting for the coolness to begin. Have any of you noticed how strange the rock forms are becoming ? asked Meredith; there, onahead of us ? one might almost believe that boulder was intended for a sphinx. I'm afraid it is prejudice, said Bell; but, do you know, I cannot bear to give up our old familiar idea of the Sphinx, ? the Greek idea of that strange creature, half monster and half woman, and all mystery, ? for what Lepsius says the Egyptians meant it to be, the portrait of a king on a symbolical body representin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217783132 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217783139 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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