THE AIR OF THE DESERT.
"The wind was really cold and blowing gustily. She drank it in as if she were tasting a new wine, and she was conscious at once that she had never before breathed such air. There was a wonderful, a startling flavour in it, the flavour of gigantic spaces and of rolling leagues of emptiness. Neither among mountains nor upon the sea had she ever found an atmosphere so .fiercely pure, clean and. lively with unutterable freedom. She leaned out to it, shutting her eyes. And now that she saw nothing, her palate savoured it more intensely. The thought of her Father tied from her. All detailed thoughts, all the minutie of the mind wero swept away. She was bracing herself to an encounter with something gigantic, something unshackled, the being from whoso lips this wonderful breatn flowed." Ibix.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 8
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