And we did
assist them, getting lights for their tapers, handing them to and
fro, and using the authority with which we seemed to be invested.
But Smith, I observed, was much more courteous in this way to the
women than to the men, as I did not forget to remind him when we
were afterwards on our road together.
Remounting our horses we rode slowly up the winding ascent of the
Mount of Olives, turning round at the brow of the hill to look back
over Jerusalem. Sometimes I think that of all spots in the world
this one should be the spot most cherished in the memory of
Christians. It was there that He stood when He wept over the city.
So much we do know, though we are ignorant, and ever shall be so, of
the site of His cross and of the tomb. And then we descended on the
eastern side of the hill, passing through Bethany, the town of
Lazarus and his sisters, and turned our faces steadily towards the
mountains of Moab.
Hitherto we had met no Bedouins, and I interrogated my dragoman
about them more than once; but he always told me that it did not
signify; we should meet them, he said, before any danger could
arise.
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