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The silence Of the ages, tragic, inscrutable, engulfing, rested over the entire scene. The last Of the exploring tourists had left the Pyra mids and wandered back to the Mena House, and their laughing voices had been sucked up in the all-absorbing stillness. The harsh, penetrating cry Of a camel broke discordantly through the twilight, but was so far away that it hardly entered into the reveries of the group about the Sphinx; like a ripple on the surface of the sea it passed, leaving the fathomless ocean of silence undisturbed.
The face of the artist grew sad and lonely as he watched, unthinkingly, the scene before him. He had drunk deep of life's cup of sorrow, and the silence and the twilight were stirring up the dregs again. Finally the boy rose to a sitting posture, and looked across the desert with uneasy eyes.
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The silence Of the ages, tragic, inscrutable, engulfing, rested over the entire scene. The last Of the exploring tourists had left the Pyra mids and wandered back to the Mena House, and their laughing voices had been sucked up in the all-absorbing stillness. The harsh, penetrating cry Of a camel broke discordantly through the twilight, but was so far away that it hardly entered into the reveries of the group about the Sphinx; like a ripple on the surface of the sea it passed, leaving the fathomless ocean of silence undisturbed.
The face of the artist grew sad and lonely as he watched, unthinkingly, the scene before him. He had drunk deep of life's cup of sorrow, and the silence and the twilight were stirring up the dregs again. Finally the boy rose to a sitting posture, and looked across the desert with uneasy eyes.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330548442
- ISBN 13 9781330548448
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages310
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