Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 456
led to see me on business and I was detained.Knowing the little fellows proneness to mischiefand forgetfulness of all commands, I at last hast-ened back, with a half-guilty, half-worried feeling. I reached the brow of the hill just in time tosee him throw a stick into the creek, lose his bal-ance,… … Many and many miles and many daysjourneytoward the rising sun, over seas and mountains anddeserts,— farther to the east than Rome, or Con-stantinople, or even Jerusalem and old Damascus,— stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scatteredover a mountain-walled oasis of the great Syriandesert,…
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