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Yes, far in the distance was an oasisan oasis with limpid water,

which reflected the iron trees!Tush, it was the scene of the

nized it at oncethe worst of the three!No

one had been able to fight against itno one I did my utmost to

keep my head AND NOT TO HOPE FOR WATER, because I knew that, if a man

hoped for water, the water that reflected the iron tree, and if, after

hoping for water, he struck against thehimself on the iron tree!

So I cried to M de Chagny: "It's the e!Don't believe in the water!

It's another trick of the mirrors! "

Then he flatly told s, rily

declared that I ine that all that

water flowing over there, a those splendid, numberless trees, was

not real water!And the desert was real!And so was the

forest!And it was no use trying to take him inhe was an old,

experienced travelerhe had been all over the place!

And he dragged hi: "Water! Water!"

And his

And