A graceful pen, beginning to cut its path in the world of elegant letters, and catching the eyes that are drawn by the radiance of the written word ... Miss Hibah al-Wadi is in the final stage of her university studies — Arabic is her field of specialization. A connoisseur of literature, finely sensitive; many of our readers ask us about her. We present her to you

today in this reflection, which joins lightness with depth ...

O reader of palms! Come, read these winding lines in our hands, and unravel for us their magic ciphers, which merge and gather in the hollows of our palms, then fade away over the backs of our fingers with a strange ease.

Gaze long at their artless meander-ing; look into their depth and how far down they run; then tell us what they say! These graven lines that hide the secrets of our lifetime in a strange, sealed silence!

Look into them, and seek out the glad tidings along their edges; then let your eyes dwell in thought and deliberation, and repeat to us what you have already recited to the hundreds before us; for here before you we feel the awe of the unknown and its majesty .. and we take it upon ourselves to hold that what you say is a certain, honest thing, drawing on your piercing insight and your possession!

Say what you will .. but be gentle with these dreams nestled deep within us — we four girls seated before you, reviving the custom of our grandmothers, seeking knowledge of the unseen from the lips of fortune-tellers! We feel the power of intuition that has captivated woman's soul and held it in pawn since first she was! Have pity, then, on this young girl who begs her fortune of you; take your inspiration from her fair locks dancing upon her forehead in pride and coquetry ... and tell her how destiny hides for her an easy comfort in the days

of her tomorrow; then whisper in her ear a great deal about the guardian of her tomorrow — about his uprightness, his tact, his nobility and his honesty — and let loftiness course through her being, so that she seeks in her young man nothing but hope and goodness .. Lull her fear of a second woman on her path .. and assure her that she will become the peerless queen upon the throne of her house; then commend her to her youthful bliss, that she may build from the fresh-ness of her dream a soaring hope!

Then take the second palm, stretched out to you in hope, and probe the mystery of its shape, and find out the dreams of its owner,

and say to her: hers is a great soul, visited by spiritual longings for the exaltation of the homeland ... Tell her that she will be a help to those driven from their land, so that in her country no voice of moaning remains; let her know that the scattered ranks of the people will be knit together by the strength drawn from her patience and her resolve; and tell her of that which will smooth her brow and draw the contented smile from her brooding soul ..

Then take the third hand, and flow on in your intimate talk with her of all that delights her girlhood; and do not forget to tell her that an artistic pageant awaits her, and that many lips will murmur her name, for she will become a princess by her plaintive playing, here in her country so starved of music and melody. Then take my palm — and do not tell me of my awaited dreams and my departing sorrows; do not look at the line of life and recount to me its long stretch of joy and gladness; and do not attend to the line of the heart and speak to me of its chambers brimming over with passion.

All I want of you, O skilled diviner

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