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of them between eating and drinking, song and play, jest and earnest... So... day after day, and week after week, and month after month... and the world around her was gladness... and the world was radiance... had not Umm al-Fahd been tossing on a sickbed, her state growing worse and worse... and had not al-Fahd been driven from the house by his father for defying his stern orders... and had not the people of the quarter begun to shun Abu al-Fahd, since he sold the field and the orchard and the vineyards of grape and fig and olive... until that day... when her father screamed at her in anger, then dragged her by her hair, his tongue never ceasing to hurl insults, while she writhed in his grip and moaned, in her eyes a glance toward the home grounds, and on her lips a cry to the people of the quarter!...

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And Husni went on chasing these returning memories that pressed upon him, tickling him and toying with him; but still they fluttered about him, hovering and wafting, moment after moment, and hour after hour...

And it was noon... and it was afternoon... and Husni finished the plowing; he loosed the yoke, cast down the plow, and turned the oxen free, his insides pinched with hunger, his throat parched with thirst, his face seared by the blaze of the sun and the scorch of the wind...

But the wind had died down, the clouds had thinned, and the sun had leaned toward its setting; and everything was pale and faint, save those shadows that still floated, and those sounds that still spread.

He stood a moment... he stood

for moments... then he turned, and there at the edge of the neighboring vineyard was the shattered skeleton of a watchman's hut, nothing left of it but four bare posts; and at the bend of the river, the remains of

a disfigured bridge, near to falling; and on the shoulder of the knoll, beneath the ancient oak, an old smooth rock, still more lasting than life and more enduring than time!...

Before he knew it he was striding

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