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Replied the King, "Yes, except thou save thyself by becoming a Moslem." Quoth Bahram, "O King, bear with me a little while!" Then he bowed his head groundwards and presently raising it again, made pro fession of The Faith and islamised at the hands of the Sultan.
It's a very, ve ry good 'fession no," he added cautiously, "per fession " and stopped short, vexed with his difficulties of enunciation. He tried several polysyllables; they went better. Then he became aware of the mantilla on his shoulders. "Some time or other," he said to himself with precision, "that little dancer girl ought to go home."
It was nearly over and the minister was about to announce the Doxology, when old Deacon Swift arose. "Des' a minute, brothahs," he said. "I want to mek a 'fession. I was too ha'd an' too brash in my talk de othah night, an' de Lawd visited my sins upon my haid. He struck me in de bosom o' my own fambly. My own son went wrong. Pray fu' me!" Polly Jackson was a model woman.
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