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"It is a great honor, Ali. I shall get ready immediately." When the night was deep enough to veil the departure, the Count seated himself in the fisher's boat, a great cloak covering his armor. Half a mile below the Sweet Waters the party was halted. "What is this, Ali?" "The Lord Mahommed's galleys of war are down from the Black Sea. These are their outlyers."
The night of the day our Christian ships beat the Turks the Grand Vizier sent me an account of a stormy scene in Mahommed's tent, and advised me to beware of Gennadius. Ah, I had fancied myself prepared to drink the cup Heaven hath in store for me, lees and all, without a murmur, but men will be men until their second birth.
Suddenly Mahommed Hassan leaned forward, then backward, and, after the fashion of desert folk, gave a shrill, sweet ululation that seemed to fill the palace. "Say, that's A1," Lacey said, when Mahommed's voice sank to a whisper of wild harmony. "Yes, you can lick my boots, my noble sheikh of Manfaloot," he added, as Mahommed caught his feet and bent his head upon them.
"Tomorrow won't help me," said Grim. "We start tonight, at sundown. I'll go with you and look the camels over now." "But, Jimgrim, that is impossible. My son Mahommed's second wife is sick " "Leave him behind, then, to look after her." "He will not consent to be left! Two of the camels are not paid for. The man comes in the morning for his money."
Were I not in your august presence, O star of the faithful, I would crop Loll Mahommed's nose from his face, and wear his ears as an ornament in my own pugree! Who is there here that knows not the difference between yonder yellow-skinned coward and Gahagan Khan Guj I mean Bobbachy Bahawder?
Tell the Governor there to keep ward to-night with unlocked gates, for I may seek them in haste. Then put thyself in the Lord Mahommed's way coming from Gallipoli, and when thou hast kissed his sandals for me, and given him my love and duty, tell him I have perfect understanding of the nativity, and will meet him in Adrianople. Hast thou eaten and drunk?" "Eaten, not drunk, my Lord."
Had my Lord the taste, and were he not already devoted by destiny, I could take him to a college where what is now so curious to him is simple reading." The hard and doubting expression on Mahommed's face began to soften, yet he persisted: "Knowing the superior, why is it needful to know the inferior powers?" "My Lord trenches now upon the forbidden, yet I will answer as his shrewdness deserves.
But the unequal struggle wore on, and with each set of sun Mahommed's hopes replumed themselves.
It may be so with me; but I will march, and in my turn assault them, and thou defending with thy best might. If I am beaten, if I retire, be the cause of failure this or that, we you and I, O Mirza will call it a judgment of Heaven, and the Princess shall be yours; but if I success and enter the city, it shall be a judgment no less, and then" Mahommed's eyes were full of fire "then"
"It is for me to observe the heavens at night, while calculations will take my days. I trust my Lord in his wisdom will excuse me." "Where is one for the service? Name him, Prince one as good." "There is one better. Bethink you, my Lord, the business is of a long time; it may run through years." Mahommed's brow knit darkly at the reminder.
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