Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 22, 2025
The one remaining incident of note was the arrival on the scene, as we left it, of another caravan a small caravan consisting of two Europeans a few laden camels, and camel-boys marshalled by one dragoman. The dragoman was Bedr el Gemaly, and he smiled at us as affectionately as though we had not driven him from us in disgrace.
His son Bedr Basim, and his wife Gulnare and the emeers and viziers and the lords of the empire, mourned over him; and they made for him a tomb, and buried him in it, and continued the ceremonies of mourning for him a whole month.
Then the king summoned the vizier and the emeers, and the lords of the empire, and the great men of the kingdom, and made them swear by binding oaths that they would make Bedr Basim king over them after his father; so they swore to him by binding oaths, and rejoiced thereat; and the king himself was beneficent to the people, courteous in speech and of auspicious aspect.
More than ever Mahomet perceived that his success lay in the sword. Bedr set the seal upon his acceptance of warfare as a means of propaganda. Henceforth the sword becomes to him the bright but awful instrument through which the will of Allah is achieved.
And God had already given you the victory at Bedr, when ye were inferior in number; therefore fear God, that ye may be thankful. When thou saidst unto the faithful, Is it not enough for you, that your Lord should assist you with three thousand angels, sent down from heaven?
"You're thinking of Bedr?" "Well, yes, I suppose I am. Biddy never believed they were Germans." "Who, those chaps in checked clothes he had in tow? By Jove! yes I heard her speak of a scar on the forehead of one." "She thought he might have been Burke, the fellow in the street row, that night at the House of the Crocodile."
It was Biddy's thought that the person Bedr wished to meet might fortunately have been prevented by this very disturbance from keeping his appointment, and Monny saved a serious ending to her adventure. It began to seem rather a worry, travelling with so important a young woman as Miss Gilder: and a vague dread of the future hung over me, as it hung over Brigit, who loved the girl.
At the end of his long years of rule he could still say with perfect truth, "My chief delight is in prayer." The Kuran. The songs of triumph over Bedr had scarcely left the lips of Muslim poets when the voice of faction was heard again in Medina.
P. S. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this letter in care of Bedr el Gemaly whose address you have at Cairo. Not hearing from you, we shall try to communicate this news in some other way. The present method has occurred to us, as you may find it useful to know the state of affairs without delay. "Oh, Biddy, do you find it useful?" I asked. She held out her hands to me.
Still, I had an uneasy feeling that something lay hidden under Armenian plausibility. Bedr el Gemaly was perhaps a thief who had courted a chance for a big haul of jewellery. Yet if that were all, why hadn't he hopped off the tram, as it began to move, with the ladies' hand luggage?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking