The charm is not in the figure, which not even love can make beautiful; nor in the movement, the noiseless stepping, or the broad careen.

As is the kindness of the sea to a ship, so that of the desert to its creature.

It clothes him with all its mysteries; in such manner, too, that while we are looking at him we are thinking of them: therein is the wonder.

The animal which now came out of the wady might well have claimed the customary homage.

Its color and height; its breadth of foot; its bulk of body, not fat, but overlaid with muscle; its long, slender neck, of swanlike curvature; the head, wide between the eyes, and tapering to a muzzle which a lady's bracelet might have almost clasped; its motion, step long and elastic, tread sure and soundless--all certified its Syrian blood, old as the days of Cyrus, and absolutely priceless.