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Updated: June 27, 2025
I have it now in my power to reflect on what I ought to do, and wish not that the future should have to reproach me with the improper conduct of the present." Having said this, the King dismissed the divan, ordered his hunting equipage to be got ready, and gave himself up for some days to the amusements of the chase. On his return, he was again set upon by the enemies of Achib.
They thought they might easily avail themselves of this event to destroy him, and went in a body to the monarch. The witness swore that he had found Achib with a naked sabre in his hand in his Majesty's chamber while he was asleep. He ascribed the most criminal intentions to this faithful guard, and pretended that nothing but some sudden alarm had prevented the intended blow.
I will not delay to take signal vengeance on your detestable baseness." Achib, having made no reply to these reproaches, was sent back to prison. Scarcely was he gone out, when two of the courtiers who were most eager for his destruction approached the King. "Sire," said they to him, "everybody is surprised to see the execution of the criminal delayed.
'Achib, hath he said, 'is to me as a shield; under his protection I can sleep without fear." Night came, and the King, after a repast, during which he affected much gaiety and cheerfulness, suddenly retired, and threw himself upon a sofa, apparently in the same state in which he had been the night before.
Upon his arrival in the capital, Achib hired a storehouse in the kan, deposited his goods there, and passed some days in arranging them to advantage. The Feast of the Ramezan came. The young man, a faithful Mussulman, possessed the art of singing so perfectly, that he was able to fulfil with dignity the functions of the Imam. He dressed himself in his faragi, and went to the principal mosque.
The Athib was jealous of him: he had never supposed that there was a voice in the world superior to his own, and the despair which he felt deprived him of the use of it he felt it die upon his lips. Achib did not give him time to recover it: he continued the prayer with a force and ease which the efforts of the Athib, supposing him to have had the courage to attempt it, could not have surpassed.
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