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    The Figure In The Mirage 1905
    The Figure In The Mirage 1905
    The Figure In The Mirage 1905
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    The Figure In The Mirage 1905

    By Robert Smythe Hichens

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Title: The Figure In The Mirage

             1905

      Author: Robert Hichens

      Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23412]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIGURE IN THE MIRAGE ***

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      THE FIGURE IN THE MIRAGE

      By Robert Hichens

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      Copyright, 1905

      On a windy night of Spring I sat by a great fire that had been built by Moors on a plain of Morocco under the shadow of a white city, and talked with a fellow-countryman, stranger to me till that day. We had met in the morning in a filthy alley of the town, and had forgathered. He was a wanderer for pleasure like myself, and, learning that he was staying in a dreary hostelry haunted by fever, I invited him to dine in my camp, and to pass the night in one of the small peaked tents that served me and my Moorish attendants as home. He consented gladly. Dinner was over—no bad one, for Moors can cook, can even make delicious caramel pudding in desert places—and Mohammed, my stalwart valet de chambre, had given us most excellent coffee. Now we smoked by the great fire, looked up at the marvellously bright stars, and told, as is the way of travellers, tales of our wanderings. My companion, whom I took at first to be a rather ironic, sceptical, and by nature "unimaginative globe-trotter—he was a hard-looking, iron-grey man of middle-age—related the usual tiger story,

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