The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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19. THE RAINBOW SIGN
20. LIFE'S NEW LANGUAGE 21. ISRAEL IN PRISON 22. HOW NAOMI TURNED MUSLIMA 23. ISRAEL'S RETURN FROM PRISON 24. THE ENTRY OF THE SULTAN 25. THE COMING OF THE MAHDI 26. ALI'S RETURN TO TETUAN 27. THE FALL OF BEN ABOO 28. "AT ALLAH-U-KABAR" PREFACE _Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago; a land wherein government is oppression, wherein law is tyranny, wherein justice is bought and sold, wherein it is a terror to be rich and a danger to be poor, wherein man may still be the slave of man, and women is no more than a creature of lust--a reproach to Europe, a disgrace to the century, an outrage on humanity, a blight on religion! That land is Morocco!_ _This is a story of Morocco in the last years of the Sultan Abd er-Rahman. The ashes of that tyrant are cold, and his grandson sits in his place; but men who earned his displeasure linger yet in his noisome |
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