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Valley of the Kings, by Marmaduke Pickthall
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Title: The Valley of the Kings
Author: Marmaduke Pickthall
Release Date: March 3, 2008 [EBook #24744]
Language: English
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THE WAYFARERS LIBRARY
The
VALLEY of the KINGS
Marmaduke Pickthall
J.M.DENT & SONS. Ltd.
LONDON
1914
THE
CHAPTER I
"Woe on you, mothers of nothing! May the scourge of Allah flay you as you go!"
The mother of Iskender held the doorway of her little house in a posture of spitting defiance. Rancour, deep-rooted and boundless, ranged in her guttural snarl. Her black eyes burned to kill, their thick brows quite united by the energy of her frown as she gazed across a sand-dell, chary of vegetation but profuse in potsherds, towards the white walls and high red roof of the Mission-house seen above a wave of tamarisks on the opposite dune. The hedge of prickly pear defining her small domain did not obstruct the view, for it consisted largely of gaps, by one of which a gr