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THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
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It was the last of those that room- od most incredible to Captain d Traviguno, a young Franch officer, who was visiting the monastery. Abbe and a few other specially privileged monks.
Walking in the garden with the old Abba one day, he asked him about IL
It was recreation time in the Convent of Bainto Ceelie, and monte could only converse with the of the little girls were playing in the large room set aside for that purpose. A fow were reading in cor nors and sue group was talking very seriously over the day's work Ono giri stood looking out of window; suddenly her interest was aroused by something she aw in the patio below; several of the others joined her, with them the
ister in charge.
"I have been here a whole month, Father, and forgive me but I etili canhot understand how men can find peace hore-walled in-cut off forever from the world."
"You are a soldier of France, my son, the Abbe repiled. "We are soldiers of God. For either duty, one must have the call."
Balow them a beautiful, zad-eyed; young woman stopped on her way into the Convont to pray before the image of the Virgin Mary. Her Ionuty, her expensive clothes and the sorrow in her eye intrigued in answer to the bell. It was n the girl.
"Who la Str" one of them asked the Bister.
They proceeded to the dining hall, into which the monks were filing
huge, envers room, paved with flag- stones. A very long, massive, wood- en table run its entire length. The Abba led his guest to the bend of the table,
"Benedicto!" The Abbe greeted
"Why, that's Domial Enfliden--" "Was the over here?" another naicod.
"Yes, also was like you shola Rock
BUDA correctly couldn't do her alther."
She docan't look very happy," a girl asid, studying the face of the stranger below.
"Is she married?" naked another. "No, she isn't married," said the Slater.
"I that why she isn't happy?" "No, my dear. You see ale dovot ed her to to looking after an in-l
"Benedictol" Fifiy monka answer- ed in unison. Conversation was for bidden them, but in prayer and in song, they were permitted to 50 their volces.
"Oremus," to announced, Bone- dic, Domine, non, et haec tua, dona, quae do tun largitate sumun sump turi, Par Christum Dominum non- trum,"
"Amen," they echoed."
Ehe stood on the balcony outskie har room, drinking in
the beauty of the African evening.
valid father whom dearly."
#od. Sister?"
she Javed
Do Travignao was about to loave the monastery, and took this oc- But-why-would-that-maka.her caston to explain for the first time why he had come at all. His mother. "He suffered greatly for years he told the Abbe, had always want- she gave up everything for him- ed him to serve the Church. She had and a few months ago he died-died rocently, and he felt that she mercifully."
The girls continued to discuss the visitor until the Sister dont them back to their work.
Meanwhile the Mother Superior, apprised of Dominia arrival, want out Into the patio to meat bor. As she led her to the litio coll that had once boen her room in the con- vent, she, too, noticed the sadness In the beautiful eyes of the viallor Domini admitted to her that she hnd not found happiness. Since her father death she had traveled to Paris, Vienne, the Riviera-ovary whore, but life had seemed to as спро пог.
Mother, Josephine thought a mo- ment.
would appreciate his devoting him- self to God, if only for a little while. A monk came in bearing a boitla of the precious liqueur called Lag arine,
"You must take this with you," the Abbo said, "A amali token of four pleasure in your visit here."
"For me?" said Do Trevignac, highly pleased.
DO YOU SAY: "Between you and I" instead of
"Between you and me"?
Mistakes like
these give you
away
1937.
MITH was left deflated matical colloquialisms as "between metaphor. "The ungodly flourishing
you and 1" and "Kke he does" (for like a green baytree" is simile.
yesterday by a fine as"). Biblical anticlimax.
The writern may be wanting to
It is said--and the saying make their audience feel at home. used to be true-that part of thei
Unfortunately, laziness and Ignor- English genius is a mistrust of;
once are probably responsible. rhetoric, a hatred of bunk, cant Grammar is a bore; but some know- ledge of its elements should have been and pretentiousness.
learned so early in life by all those of game Drake, finishing
who try to write that mere instinct] bowls, made characteristically
the Armada's will warn them off "between you and English reply to flamboyant gesture. Even Kipling, 39 an extreme ingoist,
Д
his
TEARING In "Stalky & Co," the
flagwagging patriotic orator.
Allegory and parable are extended similes or metaphors which usually have a plot, tell a story, and point a moral.
Smith errs, he erra in good company.
I' Shakespeare (who once, in "The Tempest," wrote "whom" when he should have written "who") also split vne infinitive.
The fact that a great writer made a slip once doesn't mean that a less
Anticlimax (when deliberate) is one instance of this instinct for puncturing pomposity. It is good scif-criticism. Another is melezi"Who is that from?" This is an- ("to really believe"). understatement,
of other of the colloquialisms which opposite hyperbole or exaggeration.
don't look well in print.
ONE grammaticni snag is the great writer may make it every day;
use of "who" and "whom." but,pedants have certainly concent- In talk you often say things like rated unduly on the split inanitive
the
Under American, influence, per- haps, overpraising one's own wures
People who know that there is
IT
can be owful. A noted is now less uncommon than it was; stag, but don't know quite what it
London clergyman was re- but "I don't mind if I do," "Not bad, is, sometimes play for safety bycently heard to say, from the pulpit, ch?" and "Pretty poor show," still using "whom" when "who would of am prepared to absolutely and mean "I should like to very much," be correct. A typical case: "Mr without any sort or kind of qualifco- "Excellent, don't you think?" and MacDonald, whom they allege is now declare." But ht infinitive "Deplorable."
longer so fit as he was
On the other hand, Mr. Mac-sliculd be split if the avoidance of Donald, whom they allege to be no distortion and only then.
the split causes ambiguity or undue longer " is correct.
THE now rather out-of-date "Not half!" is an example of this colloquial melosis. The most convincing advertisements are often those which deliberately refrain from saying more than that such-and-such A rough-and-ready, though not In- There are many other things, done a tobacco or car is as sound as any fallible, way of checking yourself and "not done" which could be en- in its class. And, in literature, there from writing "whom" in a case like lorged op-e.g.. the preposition at the is a powerful meiosis in T. S. Eliot's the first is to imagine that the words end, as in "enlarged on" or in the "Journey of the Magl'!-- "they allege" are in a bracket: the last phrase of this article, which in- phrase should read smoothly without furiates some pedants but often a them: "Whom is no longer so fit as makes a sentence run less stiffly; but
The wos" is obviously wrong.
perhaps the general idea of meiosia is
Why is "who" correct in the first Here die-hard non-splitters have of these cases, "whom" in the other? the right to say that such a case Because "who is subjective ("who" won't arise more than once in a is the subject of the subsidiary clause million sentences; that the sentence
who is no longer "), while should then be remodelled. "whom" is
is objective,
poem
it was (you may
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To have learned even the begin- the best to icuve Smith with as he Hongkong Bank Bldg. Say)
pings of Latin grammar is a help. starts to write. How much more significant that Latin being dead, is fixed, hard-and- He has learned to think before. "antisfactory" for every English fast; English is changing, fluid, not, | reader knows what the Magi did find so cusily pinned down,
when they reached Bethlehem-than some more obvious
word,
"over-
|whelming." or "deeply impress"
putting down a phrase that comes too easily to his pen (for it may to be a cliche). He has learned state clearly what he secs and hears. He has learned some rudl- or "unforgettable," would have
When the translators of the Bible
THERE go another two meta- ments of deliberate artifice. Now,
phors which don't feel quite | Jest
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be especially impressive they
"Auid,"
a flowing, stream can't very ber that there is the earth to come wrote the two-word sentence "Jesus
be
down," "pinned
If the back to. wept"-not, as many contemporary told-to-the-children translators would phrase had read "so fluid that it can't have written, "Jesus burst into a flood be pinned down." it would have been
to
well
of tears and sobbed as though his an actual mixed metaphor. Yon. A bottle of the liqueur wa
make here in the monastery. Wa are very proud of it"
"You have every reason to be. I have tasted 12. It is superb."
"I will call Father Antoine, The making of the liqueur in bla charge. Your praise will make him happy. Brother Gregory, call Broth- er Antoine from his work."
Why not leave the cities you live found so lonely and try some- Brother Gregory left the hall. thing different?" she suggested. "Perhaps the desert, for a time."When he returned, all eyco turned Tho dcsort, Mother? What will on him, for it was obvious that he I find there?" Like a child she looked suffering some tremendous ed up into Mother Joanphine's face,hock Bo great wax his agitation that ho could not control himself. wonderingly.
"Brother. Antoine's gonel" he cried. "Gone out into the work. He'n broken his vow!"
"There In the solitude" The He broke his allence. Mother Superior put her hand affoo tionately on Domini's head, "Thero you may find yourself. In the face
"Enough!" commanded the Abbe, of the Infinite, your grief will van- Ish-" Domin! rested her hoad on rising and stretching out his hands Mother Josephine's lap and you to quiet the horror struck group. will realize lifa in larger, fuller than Then, in tones of deep and troubled compassion, ho said, "Do not con- you dream,"
Domini resolved to tako Mother demn him, Pity him, Whatever has Josephine's advice and propared to led Brother. Antoine, to take this travel to Algaria, to the tity of awful stop-we know that he loved Bani-Mora, parlah of. Mother God. Agony of spirit, remorse and Josephine's friend. Father Roubler. terrar will follow him wherever he Meanwile, at D-Legarn, a Trap- goes. He will roturn. Wo muat bo piet Monastery autelds Tunis, in love that. Let us not forgot that Northern Africa, occurred a dram-for those who are weary-for those who have lost the way" pointing atle and unprecedented event.
The monka led a life so peaceful to the Crucifix on the wall, "there as, to be almost entirely detached alone, in peace." Trom the outer world. After com- pleting their novitiate, they swore eternal vows of chastity, poverty and, most drostle of all, silence.
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ACROSS
1 The one garment, probably, which shows the thing's cost all but a shilling (two words, 7, 7).
Come in. Go in 9. Go in
10 Though Inactive at present, it would take but litle to make it very blting.
11 Probably more felt in the City
than otherwise
12 not Infrequently, anyway. 13 A bad shot among the cabbages. 18 Help wanted for a first-class
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17 Push.
19 Unable to put Annlo in her little
bod.:
22 In Africa.
20 The girl who evidently got on
pretty well with her job."
20 Isn't commonly finished off in
colour.
27 In truth, sho took a city.
4
30 Put on in March for a king, 31 Places in captivity in coils,
apparently.
32 A tense fron grip (anng.).
DOWN!
It would puzzle any tailor to to make this-sult.
2 Slood,
3 Jol.
4 This animal would appear to
flourish on fg fore
5 It certainly isn't the principai part, and queer men go to it 6 One result of tears.
•
7 It is not singular for a child
to catch this. -
8 Gates in a horizontal position. 14 Frightfully foolish that is about
nurse, isn't it?
13 Brother to Yvonne. 18 Some Insa! (anag). 20 Love intersiner.
21 The girl who will talk in class. 23 It would seem that men fight.
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23 Half fellow, well metiin 1937. 24 Walk.
28 Famous actor-manager..
20 Indicative of second thoughts.
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