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motjstapha's house. 177
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Li Of Oj Tt ? Le Propriety All Arab The ...
I have said that these Arab women could not speak any but their own language , though more or less knowledge of French is
very general among the men . There is , however , a large school instruction in the town in the of Al tongues giers , of where the conquering about one race hundred as well gir as ls in receive other
" branches of knowled . The name of the able , mistressMadame _Xoiceis alreadknown ge Enlandthough not as well as , it ought
to be , ; and I am y grieved to say g that , she has lost her right hand in the work , her sous-maitresse _, Nefissa , who was a well-educated young *
woman in one sense of the word , and capable of effecting immense t good ionthe to fourth her own of her race famil . y Poor thus carried _INTefissa off died . It of was rap grievous id consum to see p-
her , on her bed of sickness , above which was a shelf of French books of all kinds- —strange sight in the room of an Arab or a
Moresquewhich she could never use more . But Arab women were not always what they are now . Dr .
some Perron time , who has was written noticed a in great this Journal thick book about thatbefor them e , the which says age
consul of Mahomet tedw ago , they lived tesses in comparative _hetesses freedom and , had , w something ere , honored heroic and _pprop
legends in their which composition , have . come In , fact down , Arabia to us had paint , its women Homeric of large age , and mental the
and moral staturesuch as loom out of the Grecian poems and later dramas . Some of , these Arab stories are whimsical enough , and
one of them actually relates the search of a bachelor after a " woman current of mind Arab , " an proverb d so signal to the was effect Ms success " that Chann that it has is 37 expressed got what in fits a
him observe , " or t , m t the exac Ara tl b y w , " Chann Tabahah has found a fem his inin lid e name . W , an shoul d als d o
signifies a lid , so that the original proverb is a very good pun . Here A man is who the story had the : —• reputation of being wise and witty among
the wisest and wittiest Arabs of his generation , became weary of his ( he bachelorhood was a heathen , and and said lived to himself before , " the By days the heavenl of Mahomet y power , ) s " !" I
must equal , set _tvho out ivill on under my , travel 'stand s ? and ne ; look and her for a will woman 1 marry who / will ' Chann h be my ,
for that was his name , evidently considered himself " un omme incompris In one . _" of his excursions he met an Arabtravelling like himself .
answered " Where are "I you am going going to ? " such said a Chann place . " to naming , the Arab the . very The village latter
towards , which Chann was himself bound : and the two men journeyed They jogged on tran along quill on y side their by mule side s . silentlduring several minutes
y , till Chann was seized with a desire to try his wit on his companion . So he suddenlobserved" Do wish to carry meor shall I
carry you ? " y " Are you , crazy ? you " replied the manj "I , am on my
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Motjstapha's House. 177
motjstapha's house . 177
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/33/
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