Syria from the saddle . oad. CHAPTER VI. HOUSE OF RICH DAMASCENE JEW — DAMASCUS MASSACRE. ROM the outside it looked like adozen other houses in the narrow,winding street; the front having adingy, ill-kept air. We knockedat the low door, and were admittedby a gorgeously liveried porter,who ushered us into a small, darkcorridor. Opening on this corri-dor were several little rooms, withthe usual sleeping-mat on the rooms were used as sleeping-places for servants and for suchmessengers from a distance as wereobliged to stay in town all was doubtless in some such lodging that t
Syria from the saddle . oad. CHAPTER VI. HOUSE OF RICH DAMASCENE JEW — DAMASCUS MASSACRE. ROM the outside it looked like adozen other houses in the narrow,winding street; the front having adingy, ill-kept air. We knockedat the low door, and were admittedby a gorgeously liveried porter,who ushered us into a small, darkcorridor. Opening on this corri-dor were several little rooms, withthe usual sleeping-mat on the rooms were used as sleeping-places for servants and for suchmessengers from a distance as wereobliged to stay in town all was doubtless in some such lodging that the Hittitecaptain lay, when, recalled from the field, he foolishly slept at the door of the kings house with all the serv-ants of his lord, and went not down to his house; anact of fidelity that cost him his life. Crossing the corridor, we came into the court aroundwhich the house was built. Here for the first time(except at Turkish baths) I saw the fabled Orientalmagnificence. The court in which we found ourselves 59. 60 SYEIA FROM THE SADDLE. was paved with white marble and surrounded by wallsof black and white stone. A fountain, shaded by blos-soming orange trees, played in the center, the breezethrowing a silvery spray half-way across the marblepavement. The orange blossoms were fragrant, and anatmosphere of drowsy coolness filled the whole the fountain stood a tall, dark-eyed slave-girl,
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