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MALLOCK W.
In an enchanted island
page 36 View PDF version of this page NEW SEASONS
the gathering twilight, plunging through crests of foam.
By the following morning we were at Port Said, where we passed a long, wearisome day. There was rain there also, and the sandy roads were in puddles. The sense of the East was by this time distinct in all of us ; but it was an East blighted and draggled, a forlorn mockery of its fame. The day after, how-ever, things at last took a different turn. I found, on waking early, my cabin aglow with sunrise. I looked from the window : sparkles were leaping on the waters. I went on deck, and there—how shall I describe the spectacle?—rose-coloured fleeces wan-dered on wastes of transparent purple ; the naked dome of the sky was soaring and arching over me ; and the dark waves heaved, waiting to be lightened into azure. It was some moments before I realised something else : then it burst on me—we were hardly two miles from land. Opposite to us Jaffa was gleaming ; and stretching to north and south of it were the brown coasts and the tufted palms of Pales-tine ; and inland, the violet outlines of the hills about Jerusalem.
And now began the process of a new birth, for which all that had gone before had been a prepara-tion—the birth, so long delayed, out of the Western winter, and the homely associations which thus far, like winter birds, had been following us—the birth out of these into a world increasingly different. At Beyrout, where I spent a day on shore, and where in
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