Jean Beraud Le Boulevard St. Denis Paris painting

Jean Beraud Le Boulevard St. Denis Paris paintingJean Beraud Le Bal Mabile paintingJean Beraud Jeune femme traversant le boulevard painting
weight of that heavy palanquin, they assumed she was inside. Ayesha returned after relieving herself to find herself alone, and who knows what might have befallen her if a young man, a certain Safwan, had not chanced to pass by on his camel . . . Safwan brought Ayesha back to Yathrib safe and sound; at which point tongues began to wag, not least in the harem, where opportunities to weaken Ayesha's power were eagerly seized by her opponents. The two young people had been alone in the desert for many hours, and it was hinted, more and more loudly, that Safwan was a dashingly handsome fellow, and the Prophet was much older than the young woman, after all, and might she not therefore have been attracted to someone closer to her own age? "Quite a scandal," Salman commented, happily.
"What will Mahound do?" Baal wanted to know.
"O, he's done it," Salman replied. "Same as ever. He saw his pet