ABSTRACT
l. 41] ‘The Lord gave, and the lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ – Job. I. 21. I have placed a scripture phrase in the mouth of a Mohammedan; but it is a saying of Job, and there can be no impropriety in making a modern Arab speak like an ancient one. Resignation is particularly inculcated by Mohammed, and of all his precepts it is that which his followers have best observed: it is even the vice of the East. It had been easy to have made Zeinab speak from the Koran, if the tame language of the Koran could be remembered by the few who have toiled through its dull tautology. I though it better to express a feeling of religion in that language with which our religious ideas are connected.
