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"I don't know," said Num, looking up with his idiotical, melancholy face. "Ha! ha! ha'" roared the crowd at Num's stupid answer. "The fellow's a fool'" said Melchior, to the gaping audience. "Well, then, if he can't tell, perhaps you may, Mr Dionysius," said I, addressing Tim. "How many, sir? Do you want to know exactly and directly?" "Yes, sir, immediately." "Without counting, sir?"
Meanwhile, the old woman went to Num's bed-chamber and said to her, "Has thy lord come to thee?" "No, by Allah!" answered Num, and the other said, "Belike he hath gone astray and entered some chamber other than thine." "There is no power and no virtue but in God the Most High, the Supreme!" exclaimed Num. "Our last hour is come and we are all lost."
"O princess," answered he, "I am known as Nimeh ben er Rebya of Cufa, and I have ventured my life for my slave-girl Num, whom El Hejjaj took by sleight and sent hither." "Fear not," rejoined the princess; "no harm shall befall thee." Then, calling her maid, she said to her, "Go to Num's chamber and bid her to me."
"I don't know," said Num, looking up with his idiotical, melancholy face. "Ha! ha! ha!" roared the crowd at Num's stupid answer. "The fellow's a fool!" said Melchior, to the gaping audience. "Well, then, if he can't tell; perhaps you may, Mr Dionysius," said I, addressing Tim. "How many, sir? Do you want to know exactly and directly?" "Yes, sir, immediately." "Without counting, sir?"
Now she is minded to buy this girl; so oppose thou not her entrance, lest it come to Num's knowledge and she be wroth with thee and suffer a relapse and this bring thy head to be cut off." Then said she to Nimeh, "Enter, O damsel; pay no heed to what he says and tell not the princess that he opposed thine entrance."
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