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Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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gone to give to the desertfull satisfaction. On the fertile plain, of the Bkaa, Shaheenfilled his eyes with the sight of Lebanonsgoodly mountains. In the face of their endur-ing glory, mans anger suddenly seemed puny,insufficient. Vengeance is mine; I will repay,those majestic heights seemed to say to Sha-heens silent farewell. Anti-Lebanon rose at last behind him and hefaced the desert. To the first band of Bedouinhorsemen that he saw he stated his name andthe cause of his presence and demanded con-duct to the sheik he sought. At the sheiks tent he .stopped only to tieabout his neck a white handkerchief, the tokenof his desire to atone with his life for the lifehe had taken. Without raising his eyes, Sha-heen bowed himself to the ground then pros-trated himself before the sheik. I am Shaheen Haddad, son of RasheedHaddad, of the town of Zahleh, he said. Iam he who slew in anger your son. Here ismy life; with it I pay for the life I took. The .sheik listened to this confession with the
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700 A FORGIVENESS OF THE DESERT calm which comes only to the dwellers in soli-tude. To him the law of the desert cried to beavenged: an eye for an eye, a life for a life.Yet here, prostrate before him, was confessionfull and free, surrender unconditional. The spirit of noblesse oblige belongs to noage and to no people. Its home is the heart ofman, on the fields of chivalry, or in the desertssilences. Shaheen Haddad, said the sheik, I acceptyour life, and to you I now return it. Rise,and eat with me my bread and my salt, thatpeace may henceforth be between us. A meal was laid before the two men; andwhen they had eaten, the sheik called a guardand placed Shaheen in his care. Go, said the sheik, proclaim to our tribethat this man is forgiven and that peace ishenceforth between us. Out into the open went Shaheen and thehorseman. As they came to the first encampment of thetribe the Bedouin paused, and then did Sha-heen hear the extent of his pardon, limitlessas the desert itself: All ye wh

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