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CHAPTER XII
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Such as thou should have been stayed at the door.

In my own house I would have been master.

We seek not to take up our abode in other nations and in the cities of the infidel.

Shall we give place to them on our own mastaba, in our own court-yard--hand to them the keys of our harems?
I would have raised the Jehad if they vexed me with their envoys and their armies." He paused, panting.
"It would not have availed," was David's quiet answer.

"This land may not be as Tibet--a prison for its own people.


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