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Excerpt from In a Syrian Saddle
In the Holy Land. You can return home in the afternoon with no anxious forebodings as to how much waste Of time is awaiting you in the shape of cards and notes on the hall table; you may wear clothes for covering, you may eat for nourishment Without taking thought for fashion in the one case, or of competition with your neighbour's cook or gardener in the other. But - according to our Occidental standards - you cannot consistently indulge any taste you may happen to have for being grand. Your attempts at a London, or shall we say a suburban, drawing-room, your At Home days, your Europeanised service, the dress Of your.
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