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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: The Coward: An Episode of the Franco-Arab War. There was not an eddy of air, yet through the darkness of a clouded night the sound of water in motion was audible. As Colonel Le Marchant, mounted on his white Arab, a present from the Sheik of Touaroua, listened intently, he could hear that the slight wish- wash of the water did not come from the margin of the Chott. Clearly, the sound was from far out on the stillness of the vast placid lake. An immense breath came from the desert. There was no wind, and the silence was terrible: yet in that muffled breath, that sigh, there were many suspirations. To the south of the Chott, sand, ?leagues of stony, herbless sand; to the east, sand, long rolling hills of desert-surf become hard as marl; to the west, sandy pastures, freshening ever and again to green spaces, with small oases many leagues distant from each other, the desert itself stretching at last across the frontier of Morocco to where Figuig lay, the boon of the wanderer; to the north, scanty pasture-lands, commanded by the military station of El Khadthera, the oasis of Sidi Khalifa, sacred to fanatics, and the hill-villages below Saida, future capital of the South- Oranian Atlas. From the south, from the east, from the west, from the north, came that vague breath through the silence. The panther and the jackal moved along the northerly margins of the Chott, for the wind had been from the south, and that way still sniffed the antelopes, clustered in tremulous groups beyond the tall sedges where they could hear the wild boar snorting and stamping. Night-wayfarers, mounted on mecharis or leading their camels in long lines, passed unseen along the sandy ways, eager to gain haven, if possible, ere the storm should break. The storm which was feared, however, was not of th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217799362 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217799361 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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