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"I have. What has that to do with it?"
"Have you learned its lesson?"
"What lesson?"
"The lesson of resignation, of obedience to the thing that must be."
Artois looked towards the last speaker and saw that he was an
Oriental, and that he was very old. His companion was a young
Frenchman.
"What do those do who have not learned?" continued the Oriental. "They
seek, do they not? They rebel, they fight, they try to avoid things,
they try to bring things about. They lift up their hands to disperse
the grains of the sand-storm. They lift up their voices to be heard by
the wind from the South. They stretch forth their hands to gather the
mirage into their bosom. They follow the drum that is beaten among the
dunes. They are afraid of life because they know it has two kinds of
gifts, and one they snatch at, and one they would refuse. And they are
afraid still more of the door that all must enter, Sultan and Nomad--
he who has washed himself and made the threefold pilgrimage, and he
who is a leper and is eaten by flies.


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