And she answered him in a voice uglier than his: "Buy it and present it to her on a platter of gold, you generous benefactor." I wanted to laugh, but bitterness choked me!. What right to rejoicing have I? The holiday?? It is theirs; they spend it laughing and puffed up, while I pass it from its dawn to its dusk working and running and panting — and after that they say: "Happy holiday, Aliyya!" Yes, every holiday and my body is well, lifting their loads and carrying their burdens.. If only I could see you, mother, and grow calm, and renew in myself a departing hope.. And Naim? When will he come, as he promised? Does he not feel my anxiety and my fear? I fear my strength will run out, and he alone can restore to me what has run out of it"..

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Four years passed after that, while she bowed her head to her master and her mistress. Four years in which the heat scorched her, the cold stung her, and longing tore her.. Is there no end to every torment, O Lord? Does dawn not follow night, and clear skies the rain? And Naim — what is the matter with him? Why can he no longer look her in the face? Her promise she has kept — but what of his? She does not know how much money he has gathered, how much he has prepared for the future! He comes only to go, and goes only to vanish, and she remains bewildered, tormented by anxiety...

Her father said, when he visited her the last time....

"Naim's case perplexes me! He is no longer what he was. They say he walks the path of evil in the city"..

And she burst out, crying:

"These are all lies, father, for I know Naim better than they do."

Her father looked into the distance and said in a whisper: — "Why does he not come to take you,

Aliyya? Does he not know that misery is choking you here?"

She bit her lip and found nothing

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