. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. -less, or has Fatima fled? 0 the screeching andyelling that succeeded to the quiet beauty of themorning! 0 the rushing about of veiled (nowall closely veiled) figures on house-tops! 0 theweeping and wailing, and literal, terrible gnash-ing of teeth ! Tell it not upon the house-tops,(shall we ever forget it being told on the house-tops 1) 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 andthe city was alive again, and its
. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. -less, or has Fatima fled? 0 the screeching andyelling that succeeded to the quiet beauty of themorning! 0 the rushing about of veiled (nowall closely veiled) figures on house-tops! 0 theweeping and wailing, and literal, terrible gnash-ing of teeth ! Tell it not upon the house-tops,(shall we ever forget it being told on the house-tops 1) 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 andthe city was alive again, and its sounds helped todrown the clamor ! 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 like SUNRfSE. 71 the Calendar in Eastern story, he proceeds totell us the cause of the tumult, — a trinket takenfrom one wife and given to another! 0 Islam !that a lost bracelet or a jealous wife should makethe earth tremble so !. MODELS. weo 3^sJa ^ ^i CHAPTEE IV. MODELS. FEOM the roof-tops of our own and theneighboring houses we have altogether many-opportunities of sketching, and making studiesfrom life. By degrees, by fits and starts, and bymost uncertain means (such as attracting curiosity,making little presents, &c), we manage to scrapeup a distant talking acquaintance with some ofthe mysterious, wayward creatures we have spo-ken of, and, in short, to become almost neigh-borly. But we never get much nearer than talkingdistance, conversing from one roof to anotherwith a narrow street like *a river flowing between 74 ARTISTS AND ARABS. us; and only once or twice during our wintersojourn did we succeed in enticing a veiled hourito venture on our terrace and shake hands withthe Frank. If we could manage to hold a younglady in conversation, and exhibit sufficient ad-miration of her to induce her, ever so slightly,to unveil whilst we made a hasty sketch, it wasabo
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