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Shortly after dark Sunday night, he watched as a group of angry young men pelted a passenger van with stones in Kaskas, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in west Beirut.
‘Ghosts of the Past’ 2007
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When the waters were abated, Kaskas went to see if his corn had received any damage; he found it all springing, and beginning to rot.
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On this confession, which appeared to the jeweller an acknowledgment of guilt, he took Kaskas by the hand and carried him before the civil magistrate, accusing him of having stolen his pearls.
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Kaskas, thinking the jeweller had been informed of the present that the fisher had made him, ingenuously replied, "I had ten of them, it is true; but some robbers whom I met on the road have carried off the other eight in the lining of my waistcoat, where I had concealed them."
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Kaskas related to him all that had happened since they parted.
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Kaskas, shocked with a prophecy so contrary to his own inclination, attempted to prove the prediction false.
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Kaskas was much ashamed of the precautions which he had taken, and of the suspicions which he had allowed himself to entertain.
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This man, affected with the situation of Kaskas, covered him with his cloak, and led him to his house, where, after having given such relief as his exhausted strength required, he clothed him in a suitable dress.
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He then entered into a minute detail of the adventure of Kaskas with regard to the pearls.
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This judge, led away by appearances, and on the declaration of the rich citizen, condemned the poor Kaskas to the bastinado, and to imprisonment as long as his accuser should be pleased to detain him in custody.
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