. Artists and Arabs : or, sketching in sunshine . reeching and yellingthat succeeded to the quiet beauty of the morn-ing ! Oh, the rushing about of veiled (now allclosely veiled) figures on house-tops! Oh, theweeping and wailing, and literal, terrible, gnashingof teeth ! Tell it not upon the house-tops.(shall we ever forget it being told on the house-tops ?) let not a whole city know thy misdeeds,is written in the Koran, it is better for thefaithful to come to prayers! Merciful powers,how the tempest raged until the sun was up and 62 ARTISTS AND ARABS. Chap. III. the city was alive again, and
. Artists and Arabs : or, sketching in sunshine . reeching and yellingthat succeeded to the quiet beauty of the morn-ing ! Oh, the rushing about of veiled (now allclosely veiled) figures on house-tops! Oh, theweeping and wailing, and literal, terrible, gnashingof teeth ! Tell it not upon the house-tops.(shall we ever forget it being told on the house-tops ?) let not a whole city know thy misdeeds,is written in the Koran, it is better for thefaithful to come to prayers! Merciful powers,how the tempest raged until the sun was up and 62 ARTISTS AND ARABS. Chap. III. the city was alive again, and its sounds helped todrown the clamour. Let us come down, for our Arab boy nowclaps his hands in sign, that (on a little low tableor tray, six inches from the ground) coffee andpipes are provided for the unbelievers; and likethe Calendar in Eastern Story, he proceeds to tellus the cause of the tumult—a trinket taken fromone wife and given to another! Oh, Islam! that a lost bracelet or a jealouswife, should make the earth tremble so! CHAPTER MODELS CHAPTER IV. models:
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