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So he sat down on one of the benches and the lady on the other; and she said to him, 'O my lord, wherefore waitest thou? He bowed his head awhile, then raised it and answered, 'I am waiting for my servant, who has the key: for I bade him make me ready meat and drink and flowers for the wine-service against my return from the bath. But he said in himself, 'Belike she will grow tired of waiting and go about her business, leaving me here, when I will go my own way. However, when she was weary of waiting, she said, 'O my lord, thy servant tarries long; and here are we waiting in the street. And she took a stone and went up to the lock.
"Don't know, my lord, I'm sure," replied the old housekeeper, doggedly, "I suppose he did, and belike beat 'em too; I only know they've been quiet all day, which, it stands to reason, they wouldn't have been without wittals; but Master Elliott, I've not seen since." "Not since early this morning, and 'tis now midnight! Where can he be?"
He was, in fact, a mild-mannered gentleman of no great force of character, and frequently interrupted our conference to talk of a bowel-complaint which obviously meant more to him than all the internal complications of Europe: and next to his bowel-complaint but some way after he prized his popularity, which ever seemed more important than his country's welfare: or belike he confused the two.
Gunnar answered, "Never gettest thou that wealth; and men of might must thou meet here, or ever we lay by life if thou wilt deal with us in battle; ah, belike thou settest forth this feast like a great man, and wouldst not hold thine hand from erne and wolf!"
I don't blame the man altogether," said Jan, reflectively; "for, come to think of it, my father's account of himself lay a bit off the ordinary run, and belike he wasn't in any condition to put it clearly.
Moreover, I have an errand, as thou wottest, which is all mine own." Bull pondered a little and then said: "King's son, I was thinking at first that our errands lay together, and it is so; but belike thou sayest true that there will be less peril to each of us if we sunder at this time.
Wherefore now let us slip warily down between the bushes till we get close to the bottom, and then belike we shall see the very creature quite close, and we shall then consider and think what we shall do with him.
'Fear not, she said, 'I shall ask thee for much and many things; and some of them belike thou shalt deny me. He shook his head; but she smiled in his face and said: 'Yea, so it is, friend; but hearken. The seasons passed, and six years wore, and I was grown a tall slim maiden, fleet of foot and able to endure toil enough, though I never bore weapons, nor have done.
"Belike thou hast been dreaming," rejoined they, "and sawest all this in thy sleep." So Hasan took thought for a while and said to them, "By Allah, this is no dream; nor vision- like doth it seem! I certainly was in Cairo where they displayed the bride before me, in presence of a third person, the Hunchback groom who was sitting hard by.
'Either the wine or that devil's toy of yours has hold of them; or the both, belike. These are the same men, and have travelled full circle, listen to them! 'tis the music of the spheres, sir. 'I believe you are right, said my host, with a chuckle. 'O, Copernicus! I drew the door open gently and looked aloft. The night, before so starry, was now clouded over.
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