• Laith Taher 259

Chapter Thirty-Eight

While he was walking in the land of the Prouds, Jarvis
passed by the house of Alan and saw a very beautiful, very
fair, redheaded, green-eyed woman. She was Abigail,
Alan’s daughter.
Fascinated by her beauty, the man stood still like a
rock and started staring at her boldly with his heart beating
fast like a waterfall. The woman noticed him and looked at
the ground shyly, then looked at him again to find that he
was still staring at her. She looked at the ground again then
looked at him, and he was still staring at her, so she went
quickly and shyly inside her house.
He kept thinking of what he had seen for days
experiencing something he had never felt before. He felt
that he was attached to that woman, he longed to see her all
the time, and he felt continuous pain for her absence.
Thoughts, feelings, longing, and pain... it must be love.
Her love broke into his heart as quickly as a horse running
in the desert. When he realized that, he rushed to his
brother, and told him that he loves Alan’s daughter, whose
name he had not known yet.
He loved her tremendous beauty and knew how
kind-hearted and well-behaved she was. One cannot be
certain about these things, someone else’s kindness and
ethics, unless he speaks to him and deals with him. Yet,
there is hunch, which enables one to expect someone else’s
traits even without talking to him.