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Updated: May 9, 2025
Is it the spirit of the lightning-cloud that thrills in this little wire, or have you learned how to bottle fire and thunder, even as a House-dweller who fills his goat-skins with apple-wine? Is the Shining One at once so great and so small that we can be both his servants and his lords?"
"And what does your god demand that his anger may be turned away?" asked Quinton Edge. "Doubtless the daily offerings upon which his faithful priests depend for their easy, unearned living. Sides of fat beeves and measures of wheat, not forgetting a cask or two of apple-wine or corn brandy." But the priest, disdaining to answer the taunt, had turned and was speaking directly to the people.
The cup went round till it came to Er Reshid, who refused it, and the mock Khalif said to Jaafer, 'What ails thy friend that he drinks not? 'O our lord, replied the Vizier, 'this long while he hath drunk no wine. Quoth the mock Khalif, 'I have drink other than this, a kind of apple-wine, that will suit him. So he let bring apple-sherbet and said to Haroun, 'Drink thou of this, as often as it comes to thy turn. Then they continued to drink and make merry, till the wine rose to their heads and mastered their wits; and Haroun said to Jaafer, 'O Jaafer, by Allah, we have no such vessels as these.
Perhaps it might be worth my while," he added, hesitatingly, "to humble myself before the Shining One. Who knows but that he might help me, seeing that all the physicians have failed. How about a quarter of hung venison, my lord, and a gallon or so of the best apple-wine just by way of a peace-offering?"
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