Word: dahabeha
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...Sleep," by C. M. Flandrau, is decidedly the best, and it is the best, too, in spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...