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| 11 | 15 | View more quotes about hassan">Hassan, in his own burnoose, sheltered the girl, Alyena, commonly keeping her wrists braceleted behind her, that she not forget she was slave. |
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| 11 | 12 | For twenty days we had been upon the desert. |
| 11 | 13 | Once, when a rising edge of blackness, whipping with dust, had risen in the south, we had dismounted, hobbled our kaiila and turned their backs to the wind. |
| 11 | 14 | We had made a wall with our packs and crouched behind it, drawing our burnooses about us. |
| 11 | 15 | Hassan, in his own burnoose, sheltered the girl, Alyena, commonly keeping her wrists braceleted behind her, that she not forget she was slave. |
| 11 | 16 | For two days the sand had hurtled about us, and we had waited, in the manner of the Tahari, patiently in the blasting half darkness of the sand. |
| 11 | 17 | We had scarcely moved, save to pass about a verrskin of water and a leather pouch of Sa-Tarna meal. |
| 11 | 18 | Then, as swiftly as it had come, the sand fled, and the sun, bright and immediate, raw with its ferocity and beauty, held again, untroubled, forgetful, the scepter, the constant, merciless mace, of its light and heat over the wide land. |