Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day - 1905

Project Gutenberg's Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day, by Robert Hichens This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 Author: Robert Hichens Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23411] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SMAÏN; AND SAFTI'S SUMMER DAY *** Produced by David Widger SMAÏN; and SAFTI'S SUMMER DAY. By Robert Hichens Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers Copyright, 1905 Contents SMAÏN SAFTI'S SUMMER DAY. SMAÏN "When the African is in love he plays upon the pipe." Sahara Saying. Far away in the desert I heard the sound of a flute, pure sound in the pure air, delicate, sometimes almost comic with the comicality of a child who bends women to kisses and to nonsense-words. We had passed through the sandstorm, Safti and I, over the wastes of saltpetre, and come into a land of palm gardens where there was almost breathless calm.