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"If I have deserved your confidence, if you believe that I shall endeavour to repair the affront you have suffered since I, by doing justice to your talents, was the innocent cause of that which has happened to you if I deserve any return from you, vouchsafe to inform me why you had poison about you when you were presented to Nourgehan?"
Nourgehan, who dreaded lest a person so young as Damake should expose herself too hastily, and return with confusion from such a dispute, used his utmost efforts to dissuade her from her request; for the fear and concern that is felt for those whom we love is most certainly far stronger than that which interests us for ourselves. His remonstrances were in vain.
Damake blushed at this discourse, and Nourgehan again pressing her to speak, she replied, "Nothing is impossible when one desires to please him whom one loves. But I will explain at once all that puzzles my Sultan.
Thus did Halechalbe pass almost unexpectedly from a madhouse to that honourable elevation to which he was raised by the Caliph Haroun, and from the most mournful of all situations to the highest degree of happiness. The Four Talismans. "Nourgehan, I leave my throne to thee. You will soon fill my place: forget not to do justice equally to the poor as to the rich.
It is the habit of men to cover their ignorance by an affectation of mystery." "But what is the virtue of this talisman that you offer me?" said Nourgehan, as he accepted the poniard. "I will inform you of it, my lord," said Damake, "at the same time that I give you an account of what I have been able to learn concerning the fish.
To repair this wrong she conjured Nourgehan to assemble all the learned men of his kingdom, that she might answer their questions, and afterwards propose some to them.
"Go on, beauteous Damake," said Nourgehan, with tenderness; "if you love me, can you conceal anything from me?" "She would have given me," resumed Damake, "a talisman of her composition that should force you always to love me, but I have refused it. Can there be any happy talisman in love but the heart?"
Nourgehan granted him his request, and gave orders to his guard to watch over the sale of the pots, and, above all, to do whatever the potter ordered him.
Nourgehan, persuaded of this important truth, was far from the presumption too common to Princes. One day, as he conversed with his courtiers upon the subject of government, he applauded those Kings who had shown the greatest love of justice. Solomon was quoted as having been the most just. "This example is not a just one," replied Nourgehan.
But Nourgehan, at the entreaty of Damake, having commanded them to continue the conference, one of them demanded, "What is heavier than a mountain?" the other, "What is more cutting than a sabre?" and the third, "What is swifter than an arrow?" Damake answered that the first "was the tongue of a man that complains of oppression;" the second, "Calumny," and the third, "A glance."
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