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قراءة كتاب The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise

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The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise

The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">SOMEBODY SENT ME A BASKET OF FRUIT

THEY ARE AN ATTRACTIVE LOT—THE REPROBATES GAVE HIM THE "ICY MITT" THEY COULD DIVE LIKE SEALS TWO MEN TAKE YOU IN HAND, AND AWAY YOU GO DID A SORT OF FANDAROLE THEN IT DAWNED UPON THE DIPLOMAT BUT NOW GIBRALTAR, THE CROUCHING LION OF TRAFALGAR, HAD RISEN FROM THE SEA WE COULD HAVE LISTENED ALL NIGHT TO BEÑUNES "THAT IS THE KASBA" ONE DOES NOT HURRY THE ORIENT—ONE WAITS ON IT MARVELLOUS BASKETS AND QUEER THINGS WE DID NOT CARE MUCH FOR PARKS ETERNALLY EAST WITH NO HINT OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD TWO BENT, WRINKLED WOMEN WEAVING LACE OUTSIDE THE DOOR WE LOOKED ACROSS THE ENTRANCE AND THERE ROSE THE ACROPOLIS, HIGH AGAINST THE BLUE HE WOULD SWING HIS ARMS AND BEGIN, "YOU SEE—!" THE REST REQUIRED A MIND-READER I WOULD HAVE APPLIED FOR THE POSITION IN THE CHORUS MYSELF TOOK TURNS ADDRESSING THE MULTITUDE ONE'S AGE, STATED ON OATH, GOES WITH A PASSPORT KEYEFF I WANTED TO CARRY AWAY ONE OF THOSE TOMBSTONES ALL THE PLAINS AND SLOPES OF THE OLD CITY, WITH ITS WHITE FRAGMENTS AND POOR RUINED HARBOR, LAY AT OUR FEET FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, BAALBEC BECAME A PLACE OF ALTARS SO THE PATRIARCHS JOURNEYED; SO, TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER, JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVELLED INTO EGYPT URGING US TO PARTAKE OF THE PRECIOUS STUFF, WITHOUT STINT ASKED HIM IF HE WOULDN'T EXECUTE A LITTLE COMMISSION FOR ME IN THE BAZAARS THE PATRIARCH KNEW ALL ABOUT JAFFA JERUSALEM—ITS BUBBLE-ROOFED HOUSES AND DOMES, ITS CYPRESS AND OLIVE TREES A CAMEL TRAIN LED THE WAY THROUGH THE GATES THE DEPTH OF THEIR FALL THE WAY OF THE CROSS THE TRUE GOLGOTHA—THE PLACE OF THE SKULL A VAST INDIFFERENCE TO ALL PUNY THINGS SANCTUARY IN KARNAK GADDIS

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