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"And to think," said he, "if I had listened to that accursed Talisman of Solomon, called The Wise, all this happiness, this ecstasy that is now mine, would have been lost to me." "Tell me, beloved," said the queen, upon the morning of the seventh day "thy father once possessed all the hidden treasure of the ancient kings of Egypt tell me, is it now thine as it was once his?"
All because of this damned vest, this silly talisman which was to gain me her love. 'In the name of Christ, says my friend, Ercole Azzanera. By the Same! If I live I will go away to the heathen, for there is no more pleasure in Christendom." So he sat for a while, maundering dismally, then stood up and made for the door. He reeled. He sank down with a clash.
I was a little surprised to see Turks and Greeks playing newsboy right here in the mysterious land where the giants and genii of the Arabian Nights once dwelt where winged horses and hydra-headed dragons guarded enchanted castles where Princes and Princesses flew through the air on carpets that obeyed a mystic talisman where cities whose houses were made of precious stones sprang up in a night under the hand of the magician, and where busy marts were suddenly stricken with a spell and each citizen lay or sat, or stood with weapon raised or foot advanced, just as he was, speechless and motionless, till time had told a hundred years!
Other writers say that its top was made of a single emerald, a talisman revealing the fates in its lucid depths. Most writers say that it stood upon three hundred and sixty-five feet, each made of a single emerald, though still another writer declares that it had not a foot to stand upon.
In the business of supper the talisman was partly forgotten, and afterward the three sat listening in an enthralled fashion to a second instalment of the soldier's adventures in India.
But for the sake of the talisman engraven on that agate, if for no other reason, I cannot give it up. 'Ah! for the sake of the talisman! That is wise, now! That is noble! Like a philosopher! Oh, I will not say a word more. Let the beautiful prophetess keep the agate, and take the opal too; for see, there is a charm on it also! The name by which Solomon compelled the demons to do his bidding.
She waited for him impatiently till night, and could not imagine what made him stay away so long. When it was quite dark, and she could hear nothing of him, she fell into a violent fit of grief: She cursed the talisman, and him that made it; and, had she not been restrained by duty, would have cursed her mother who gave it to her.
Gentleness ought to be the characteristic of the sex; and there is nothing that can compensate for the want of this feminine attraction. Gentleness is, indeed, the talisman of woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment; the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head.
Among the Romans, the grandest of all colonizers, the individual's Civis Romanus sum I am a Roman citizen was something more than verbal vapouring; it was a protective talisman a buckler no less than a sword.
I was eager to get away from Grand Cairo, where I knew I was an object of execration. I had a strange fancy haunting my mind; I imagined that all my misfortunes, since I left Constantinople, had arisen from my neglect of the talisman upon the beautiful china vase.
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