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  Saïd

the Fisherman

The

Blue Jade

Library

The

Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer

Haldane Mac Fall

The Life of Henri Brulard

Henry Beyle-Stendhal

Captain Cook’s Voyages

Andrew Kippis

Hadrian the Seventh

Frederick Baron Corvo

Saïd the Fisherman

Marmaduke Pickthall

The Diaboliques

Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

Other titles in preparation

Marmaduke Pickthall

Saïd

the Fisherman

New York

Alfred A. Knopf

1925

Copyright, 1925, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Contents

Part I

The Book of His Luck

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Notes to Part I

Part II

The Book of his Fate

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Time Table

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The house of Saïd the fisherman nestled among the sandhills of the seashore at a long stone’s throw from the town, in whose shadow it lay at sunset. Within, it was a single room, very dirty, the abode of many aged smells; without, a squat cube with walls of stone and roof of mud sun-baked and rolled to a seemly flatness. Hard by was a fig-tree, the nearest to the sea in all that coast. Here, in a crotch of the branches, Saïd would place his mattress in the stifling summer nights and snore two deep bass notes in peace and coolness, while his wife trumpeted a treble from her couch upon the house-top. Here, when the day’s work was done, he would squat in the shade, drawing leisurely at his narghileh, with the sound of bubbling water to cool him at every puff.

He was not a great fisherman, such as is to be found in Europe, with a sailing-boat…

  

 

  

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