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Updated: May 24, 2025
Now, the miser was perplexed at the sight; but Aswarak stepped backward in defiance, bellowing, ''Twas for this I was tricked to come here! Is 't fooling me a second time? By Allah! look to it; not a second time will Aswarak be fooled. Then she ran to him, and exclaimed, 'Fooled? For what cam'st thou to me?
Then they sat and feasted together, and Ukleet with them; and if Aswarak or Boolp waxed impatient of each other's presence, he whispered to them, 'Only wait! see what she reserveth for you. And Bhanavar mused with herself, 'Truly that reserved shall be not long coming! So they drank, and wine got the mastery of Aswarak, so that he made no secret of his passion, and began to lean to her and verse extemporaneously in her ear; and she stinted not in her replies, answering to his urgency in girlish guise, sighing behind the veil, as if under love's influence.
The lamps were extinguished, and in her hand was the glory of the Serpent Jewel, no other light save it in the vaulted chamber. So the old miser perked his chin and brows, and cried wondering, 'I know it, this Jewel, O my mistress. She turned to the Vizier, and said, lifting the red gloom of the Jewel on him, 'And thou? Aswarak ate his under-lip.
'Otherwise, thought he, 'why loosed she not a serpent from the host to strangle me even as yonder black slaves? Bhanavar knew the mind of Aswarak, and considered, 'The King is cunning and weak, a slave to his desires, and in the bondage of the jewel, my beauty.
So she veiled her face in the close veil of the virtuous, and despatched Ukleet, whom she exalted in the palace of the King, to the Vizier; and Ukleet stood before Aswarak, and said, 'O Vizier, my mistress truly is longing for you with excessive longing, and in what she now undergoeth is forgotten an evil done by you to her; and she bids you come and concert with her a scheme deliberately as to the getting rid of this tyrant who is an affliction to her, and her life is lessened by him.
So these fell upon them, and bound them, and haled them into the house again, where was the dark Vizier Aswarak, and certain officers of the night watch with a force. The Vizier cried when he saw them, 'I accuse thee, Prince Almeryl, of being here in the city of our lord the King, to conspire against him and his authority.
Now, ere she set forth on the after-morrow to make her purchases, Bhanavar sent word to the Vizier Aswarak that she would see him, and he came to her drunken with alacrity, for he augured favourably that her reluctance was melting toward him: so she said, 'O my master, my time of mourning is at an end, and I would look well before thee, even as one worthy of being thy bride; so bestow on me, I pray thee, for my wearing that day, the jewels that be in thy treasury, the brightest and clearest of them, and the largest.
This continued, and Aswarak became urgent with her, and to remove suspicion from him she named a day from that period when she would be his.
'Otherwise, thought he, 'why loosed she not a serpent from the host to strangle me even as yonder black slaves? Bhanavar knew the mind of Aswarak, and considered, 'The King is cunning and weak, a slave to his desires, and in the bondage of the jewel, my beauty.
This continued, and Aswarak became urgent with her, and to remove suspicion from him she named a day from that period when she would be his.
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