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His wife made a despairing gesture. He motioned to hearken a moment more; but no human sound sent a faintest ripple across the breathless air; the earth was as silent as the stars. Still he waited in vain they were gone. The soldier and his wife lay down once more without a word. There was no more need of argument than of accusation.
When everyone had gone Seti the Prince rose and bowed before the throne. "O Pharaoh," he said, "be pleased to hearken. We have heard very evil words spoken by these Hebrew men, words that threaten your divine life, O Pharaoh, and call down a curse upon the Upper and the Lower Land. Pharaoh, these people of Israel hold that they suffer wrong and are oppressed.
Some of them came to me and thoroughly arousing me said, 'Tell us what hath befallen our son and say how came he in this plight? Replied I, 'O folk, hearken to me!" And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Night,
"'Nay nay, said I, 'it will not do, hearken thou rather: For here I give thee the choice of two things, either that thou be Lord of Utterbol, or that we slay thee here and now. For we be two men all-armed. "Thou didst seem to ponder it a while, and then saidst at last: 'Well, I set not out on this journey with any such-like intent; yet will I not wrestle with weird.
"Hearken, king Ithobal, I must have time. Give me eight days from now in which to answer you, for if you will not, I deny your suit." Ithobal seemed about to refuse the demand of Sakon. Then once more his counsellors plucked him by the sleeve, pointing out to him that if he did this, it was likely that none of them would leave the city alive.
And if she was not disposed to hearken a friendly and timely word such as I was givin' her, I said, she'd see herself taken out o' her home, and her hoorish body stripped to the skin, and then tarred and feathered, and ridden on the cap-rail of a corral-gate out of a settlement that had small taste for her company!" "Whinnie!" I gasped, sitting down out of sheer weakness, "you didn't say that?"
"Then, why cannot the guilty be brought to justice, and the innocent freed?" "Torment me not with questions which can serve no purpose," he sternly replied "The deed was done by those who are far enough from pursuit, and safe enough from discovery! No one can save Effie but yourself." "Woe's me! how is it in my power?" asked Jeanie, in despondency. "Hearken to me!
But when he drew near his old home, he looked down upon it from the hills with brimming eyes, and said in himself, "Haply they might know thee; so I will wander about the outskirts, and hearken to the folk. Allah grant that my case be not remembered by them!" And the mother answered, "Thou was born, O my daughter, on the very night when Abu Hasan farted."
Nabu Samak was a great friend to Ikkor and it grieved him to have to carry out the king's order. "Ikkor," he said, "I am certain that thou art innocent, and I would save thee. Hearken unto me. In the prison is a wretched highwayman who has committed murder and who deserves death. His beard and hair are like thine, and at a little distance he can easily be mistaken for thee.
For behold, thus saith the Lord: I will not show unto the wicked of my strength, to one more than the other, save it be unto those that repent of their sins, and hearken unto my words. Now therefore, I would that ye should behold, my brethren, that it shall be better for the Lamanites than for you except ye shall repent.
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