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Thinkest thou that I could not guess at her dishonourable fears of me? that she apprehended, that the supposed husband would endeavour to take possession of his own? and that Miss Partington would be willing to contribute to such a piece of justice? Thus, then, thou both remindest, and defiest me, charmer!
'When he who is asked a favour saith "To-morrow," * The wise man wots 'tis vain to beg or borrow." Thou remindest me of thy partnership in the Wazirate, when I admitted thee to share with me only in pity for thee, and not wishing to mortify thee; and that thou mightest help me as a manner of assistant.
"If anyone offend one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone be hanged about his neck and that he be cast into the sea." Yet truth is truth, and should be spoken should it not, malignant monitor, who remindest me how often I fail to speak it?
"Ah, lady!" said the poet, "who, to judge by the cordial beauty in thy looks, hast a heart overflowing with love, be pleased to draw thee nearer to the stream, that I may understand the words thou singest. Thou remindest me of Proserpine, of the place she was straying in, and of what sort of creature she looked, when her mother lost her, and she herself lost the spring-time on earth."
I hate the faces I gaze upon; I loathe the voices I hear. And, were it for nothing else, thou remindest me of him who is gone: thou art familiar to me every look of thee breathes of my home, of my household recollections. Take me with thee, beloved stranger! or leave me to die I will not survive thy loss!"
On the forty-first day, there came a present from the Khalif: which when the Sultan saw, it pleased him and he took counsel about it with his Viziers, one of whom said, 'Mayhap this present was intended for the new Sultan. Quoth Muin, 'We should have done well to put him to death at his first coming; and the Sultan said, 'By Allah, thou remindest me of him!
"The day," said Waldemar, "is not yet very far spent let the archers shoot a few rounds at the target, and the prize be adjudged. This will be an abundant fulfilment of the Prince's promises, so far as this herd of Saxon serfs is concerned." "I thank thee, Waldemar," said the Prince; "thou remindest me, too, that I have a debt to pay to that insolent peasant who yesterday insulted our person.
"I did not dream, eccellenza, that you were so happy as to have the one, or that I was so honored as to have the other." "Thou remindest me of my folly, good Gino. In aiding me on this occasion, thou wilt have thy own fortune in view, as thy efforts, like those of thy fellows, will be made in behalf of the lady to whom I have just plighted a husband's vows."
I hate the faces I gaze upon; I loathe the voices I hear. And, were it for nothing else, thou remindest me of him who is gone: thou art familiar to me every look of thee breathes of my home, of my household recollections. Take me with thee, beloved stranger! or leave me to die I will not survive thy loss!"
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