Iknownothing, indeed, which so disfigures the countenanceofayoung person, or so impresses every feature with an air of demureness, ifnot altogether of sanctimoniousnessand of age.
This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.