Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . IV. H. H. RUINS OF BAALBEC. I reached the door of the khan, where I lay down tosleep. The creatures of darkness, however, which comeout from nooks and corners of ungarnished chambersallowed me but little rest. My compensation was, thatI had the earliest morning for examining the ruins. 1was told that Ibrahim Pasha had had the fallen stonesbuilt up into a mosque and castle, and the bewildermentcaused me by this arrangement was more confusing thanthe disorder occasioned by successive earthquakes. I in PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 69 stole time
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . IV. H. H. RUINS OF BAALBEC. I reached the door of the khan, where I lay down tosleep. The creatures of darkness, however, which comeout from nooks and corners of ungarnished chambersallowed me but little rest. My compensation was, thatI had the earliest morning for examining the ruins. 1was told that Ibrahim Pasha had had the fallen stonesbuilt up into a mosque and castle, and the bewildermentcaused me by this arrangement was more confusing thanthe disorder occasioned by successive earthquakes. I in PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 69 stole time for drawing by sending the muleteer acrossthe plain, with a promise to overtake him by fast I went on with my work, I heard the village forgebeaten, the cocks crow, and the calling of the hoursof prayer. About two I concluded that I must my final visit I observed that the keystone of the. TEMPLE AT BAALBEC. arch painted by Roberts had dropped lower, and wastremulous in the wind. The fallen stones which formedthe ceilings of the side porches had as centres someadmirably carved heads of Apollo and Diana, and inone central circle there was a portrait head of Adrian,the donor. The keeper of the khan betrayed somedisposition, now that I and Issa were alone, to rely uponour fear to exact extreme backshish^ but I refused him and 70 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. rode away. We had counted toq surely upon finding ourroad over the plain by a mark pointed out on the distanthills, but we lost our way, and had to retrace our stepsconsiderably. The incessant demands for payment fromfellahin whom we met, and of whom we asked the way ora drink of water, were vexatious, and we found we hadbeen falsely guided. The horses, by dint of greater repose,and liberal green food, had become quite lively, and werefretful at the loss of their companions of the long some hours, when I
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