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THAHN Now we shall see the faces of the girls when they come to the banquet. MLAN Never had beggars such a time. AGMAR Hark! They are coming. I hear footsteps. THAHN The dancing girls. They are coming. THIEF There is no sound of flutes; they said they would come with music. OOGNO What heavy boots they have, they sound like feet of stone.
AGMAR There is no benevolence greater than our benevolence. ILLANAUN Then we need do little: they portend no danger to us. AGMAR There is no anger greater than our anger. OORANDER Let us make sacrifice to them, if they be gods. AKMOS We humbly worship you, if ye be gods.
SLAG It shall be spoken of, Master. OOGNO This is our thief. THIEF I could only procure you three green raiments, Master. The city is not now well supplied with them; moreover it is a very suspicious city, and without shame for the baseness of its suspicions. THIEF I could do no more, Master. I have not practised thieving all my life. AGMAR You have got something: it may serve our purpose.
ONE Master, my child was bitten in the throat by a death-adder at noon. Spare him, Master; he still breathes, but slowly. AGMAR Is he indeed your child? ONE He is surely my child, Master. AGMAR Was it your wont to thwart him in his play, while he was strong and well? ONE I never thwarted him, Master. AGMAR Whose child is Death? ONE Death is the child of the gods.
She comes to us at evenings away in the mountain of Marma. She trips over the mountains when she is young: when she is young and slender she comes and dances before us: and when she is old and unshapely she hobbles away from the hills. AGMAR Yet she is young again and forever nimble with youth: yet she comes dancing back. The years are not able to curb her nor to bring grey hairs to her brethren.
And yet when they think upon damnation and the dooms that are withering a myriad bones, then almost, were they not divine, they could weep. Be quick. Repent of your doubt. ILLANAUN Most reverend Deity, it is a mighty doubt. CITIZENS Nothing has killed him! They are not the gods! You have a plan? AGMAR Not yet, Slag. DROMEDARY MAN They were not there. ILLANAUN They were not there?
THIEF Yes, on dromedaries. AGMAR They should be back to-day. OOGNO We are lost. THAHN We are lost. THIEF They must have seen the green jade idols sitting against the mountains. They will say, 'The gods are still at Marma. And we shall be burnt. SLAG My Master will yet devise a plan. SLAG My Master will devise a plan. OOGNO He has taken us into a trap. THAHN His wisdom is our doom.
FIRST BEGGAR He has spilt it. SECOND BEGGAR He has spilt it. AGMAR It is a fitting libation. Our anger is somewhat appeased. ANOTHER BEGGAR But it was Woldery! AGMAR Trouble us not now. It is the hour at which the gods are accustomed to speak to the gods in the language of the gods, and if Man heard us he would guess the futility of his destiny, which were not well for Man. Begone! Begone!
OOGNO Yes, master, a poor beggar. AGMAR How long has the calling of beggary existed? OOGNO Since the building of the first city, Master. AGMAR And when has a beggar ever followed a trade? When has he ever haggled and bartered and sat in a shop? OOGNO Why, he has never done so. AGMAR Are you he that shall be first to forsake the calling? OOGNO Times are bad for the calling here.
So shall they seem more pious to you all, pretending that they alone have seen the gods. Fools shall believe them and share in their damnation. You anger the gods. ILLANAUN I am not sure whom I anger. OORANDER It may be they are the gods. ILLANAUN Where are these men from Marma? CITIZEN Here are the dromedary men, they are coming now. AGMAR The men are doubters. How the gods hate the word!
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