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CHAPTER V
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“A rose issues from thorns.”—Arabic Proverb.
The desert looked like an immense mosque1 with vast purple dome2 inlaid with silvery stars, spread with a carpet of many colours—grey, amethyst3, saffron, fawn—stretching to Eternity4 for the feet of worshippers to tread. It held the peace of great spaces and the prayer of the everlasting5, and changed, in the twinkling of the stars, to the likeness6 of a fairy meadow, in which flowers of every shape nodded and curtsied and bowed to each other, as far as eye could see; flowers formed by the light breeze which twisted and turned the sand into little spirals, until the desert seemed covered with dancing, silvery poppies across which love came as silently, as unexpectedly as it comes in country lanes or the city’s crowded thoroughfares.
Helen Raynor looked over her shoulder towards the camp, pitched under the isolated7 palms which formed the so-called oasis8, and smiled at the sound of her “boy’s” voice raised in what he termed a love song, but which had all the monotonous9 ring of a long-drawn10-out litany of personal woes11.
She sat on a hummock12 of sand, dazzlingly fair in the starlight, with a smile of content on her broad, humorous mouth, and the
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困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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entanglement
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v.写,刻( inscribe的过去式和过去分词 );内接 | |
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bazaar
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