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And, as I sighed to think I e'er had wakened, and mused upon the strangeness of my vision, a still small voice descended from above and called, "Alroy!" I started, but I answered not. Methought it was my fancy. Again my name was called, and now I murmured, "Lord, I am here, what wouldst thou?" Naught responded, and soon great dread came over me, and I rushed out and called to thee, my master.
Their torches, round which the bats whirled and flapped their wings, and twinkled their small eyes, threw a ghastly glare over the nearer walls of the dungeon, the extremity of which defied the vision of the prisoner; and, when the gaolers retired, Alroy was in complete darkness. The image of the past came back to him. He tried in vain to penetrate the surrounding gloom.
Carefully he closed the portal, slowly he advanced, with a subdued step; he approached the lady and the stranger. 'Alroy! said the astonished Honain, the light fell from his hand. 'Alroy! exclaimed the lady, with a bewildered air: she turned pale, and leant against a column. 'Daughter of the caliph! said the leader of Israel; and he advanced, and fell upon his knee, and stole her passive hand.
Alroy would willingly have immediately followed the African, and held some further and more private conversation with him; but some minutes elapsed, owing to the officious attentions of Zimri, before he could escape; and, when he did, his search after the stranger was vain. He inquired among the congregation, but none knew the African.
'Am I to speak? enquired Alroy, when the tumult had subsided. The melody of his voice commanded universal attention. Alp Arslan nodded his head in approbation. 'King of Karasmé! I stand here accused of many crimes. Now hear my answers. 'Tis said I am a rebel. My answer is, I am a Prince as thou art, of a sacred race, and far more ancient.
The finest view of Jerusalem is from the Mount of Olives. It is little altered since the period when David Alroy is supposed to have gazed upon it, but it is enriched by the splendid Mosque of Omar, built by the Moslem conquerors on the supposed site of the temple, and which, with its gardens, and arcades, and courts, and fountains, may fairly be described as the most imposing of Moslem fanes.
What we may have been, Alroy, is a bright dream; and what we may be, at least as bright a hope; and for what we are, thou art my brother. In thy love I find present felicity, and value more thy chance embraces and thy scanty smiles than all the vanished splendour of our race, our gorgeous gardens, and our glittering halls. 'Who waits without there? 'Caleb. 'Caleb! 'My lord.
Oh, yes, there was easy money and plenty. So what else mattered? These were the opinions of those who really counted, such men as Lorson Harris, head of the Seal Bay Trading Corporation, and Alroy Leclerc, who kept a mud shelter of extensive dimensions for the sale of drink and food and gambling.
But were I you, I would make him pay me first. 'Merchant, said Hassan, 'have you any objection to pay another visit to your friend Alroy? 'Allah forbid! 'In my company? 'That makes a difference. 'Be our guide. The dirhems shall be doubled. 'That will make up for the fifty per cent. I hardly like it; but in your company that makes a difference. Lose no time.
The guard disappeared; and the caftan falling to the ground, revealed Honain. 'My beloved Alroy, said the brother of Jabaster; and he advanced, and pressed him to his bosom. Had it been Miriam, Alroy might have at once expired; but the presence of this worldly man called back his worldliness. The revulsion of his feelings was wonderful.
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