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'He is exactly what Sidonia prepared me for; worthy not only of being your father, but the father of mankind. 'The Moslemin say that we are near paradise at Damascus, said Madame Nassim, 'and that Adam was fashioned out of our red earth. 'He much wished to see you, said Eva, 'and your meeting is as unexpected as to him it is agreeable. 'We ought to have met long before, said Tancred.
For my part, I do not see much advantage in the diplomatic corps, if occasionally they do not execute a commission for one. Hillel hurried Eva away, accompanied by his sister and Madame Nassim. Tancred and Fakredeen remained behind. 'Who is this man? said Tancred. ''Tis her affianced, said the Emir; 'the man who has robbed me of my natural bride.
'Come, come, said Fakredeen, 'see how they are all gathering round the marriage casket. Even Nassim Farhi has risen. I must go and talk to him: he has impulses, that man, at least compared with his brother; Mourad is a stone, a precious stone though, and you cannot magnetise him through his wife, for she has not an idea; but Madame Nassim is immensely mesmeric. Come, come, Tancred. 'I follow.
Madame, Nassim was highly cultured, enthusiastic for her race, and proud of the friendship of Eva, of which she was worthy. There were also playing about the room three or four children of such dazzling beauty and such ineffable grace that no pen can picture their seraphic glances or gestures of airy frolic.
'There is a prayer which the Mesdemoiselles Laurella once sang, a prayer of Moses in Egypt, said Madame Nassim, somewhat timidly. 'It is very fine. 'I wish they would favour us with it, said Eva; 'I will ask Hillel to request that kindness; and she beckoned to Hillel, who sauntered toward her, and listened to her whispered wish with a smile of supercilious complacency.
Tancred took advantage of this movement to approach Eva, who was conversing, as they took their evening walk, with the soft-eyed sister of Hillel and Madame Nassim Farhi; a group of women that the drawing-rooms of Europe and the harems of Asia could perhaps not have rivalled.
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