I have found a great pleasure in serving a cause.. and in the course of this ser-vice I am exposed to what they call dangers, which are among the necessities of this work.. So I fear, were I to bind myself in marriage — in which I know there is an ample share of happiness — that I should load upon my life's partner such responsibility and dan-gers as her acceptance of them could not be reconciled with her love; and I fear, on the other hand, that my attachment to her and her attachment to me might lessen my readi-ness to serve the cause to which I wish to devote myself entirely.

This is what the Ustad said, in his imitation Egyptian accent and his theatrical ges-tures, and then his drowsy glances.

Iskandar al-Riyashi

I made for his her-mitage, and I do not deny that I was afraid. My good luck willed that the office should be crowded with visitors, but he began apologizing and begging me to come back at another hour. But I stood firm before him and asked that I be allowed to ask him

now what I wished — or else I would never return...

And it was as though he were ashamed to refuse a lady's plea — he being the gentleman... as he claims... So he answered me what he answered, and it is for the reader to make sense of the wayward journalist — whether he spoke truly or was afraid of home.

- A married man must forget the first fifteen years of his marriage and not think of them... Then he will know, in the last days of his youth, that marriage was a divine blessing not to be regretted... And I am not regretful...

Al-Nassouli

- Marriage, Miss, is a binding duty and a deep, sacred wisdom. I wish for everyone to enjoy the blessing of marriage, and especially the jour-nalist and the man of letters, because through it he can set his life in order and rescue it from the chaos in which

the journalist lives in this country.

Ramiz Sarkis

I was certain from the first moment that he was not regretful, when he received me with a knot between his brows and a roughness in his voice; and he changed his tone only when he came to know who I was — that I am a journalist...

- Forgive me, Miss, for I frightened you — I am a man of work, as you see.. But I, Miss, am very happy in my marriage and delighted in my family... Marriage is necessary, and one of the refinements of life... And I wish you a happy marriage...

Hanna Ghosn

- Will you remain a bachelor? - What busi-ness of yours is my marriage.. How strange! Am I not free... - But you must marry. - I beg you, Miss, keep your precious advice (and let's stay friends) — every

time you come at me with a new question.

- But what fault is it of mine? I am only a correspondent — so will you answer my questions?

- And what do I care whether you marry or never marry at all... Do you think you are extraordinarily handsome, or what?...

- Here the Ustad choked, his fury sub-sided, and he answered me that he had thought seriously of marriage, but that he was hesitant as to whether the bride would accept him or not... And I swore never to go back to him again, so as not to hear his shouting.

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