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Educated in the sweet order, and amid the decorous virtues of the roof of Besso, Fakredeen, who, from his susceptibility, took the colour of his companions, even when he thought they were his tools, had figured for ten years as a soft-hearted and somewhat timid child, dependent on kind words, and returning kindness with a passionate affection.
There was not one of these men, grey though some of them were in years and craft, whom the innocent and ingenuous Fakredeen did not bend as a nose of wax, and, when Adam Besso returned to Syria in '43, he found his foster-child by far the most considerable person in the country, and all parties amid their doubts and distractions looking up to him with hope and confidence.
The Pasha of Aleppo, long irritated by the Ansarey, and meditating for some time an invasion of their country, had been fired by the all-influential representations of the family of Besso instantly to undertake a step which, although it had been for some time contemplated, might yet, according to Turkish custom, have been indefinitely postponed.
You see that Scheriff Effendi there, sitting like an Afrite; he will not give me the muskets unless I pay him for them; and the Bedouin chief, he will not carry the arms unless I give him 10,000 piastres. Now, if you will pay these people for me, my Besso, and deduct the expenses from my Lebanon loan when it is negotiated, that would be a great service.
'I am disappointed that Besso is not here. I am most anxious to see him. 'Shall I send for the Colonel, my lord? said Baroni, shaking Tancred's Arabian cloak. 'Well, I think I should let him return naturally, said Tancred; 'sending for him is a scene; and I do not know why, Baroni, but I feel I feel unstrung.
The English lord will pay Scheriff Effendi for his five thousand muskets, and for their conveyance to the mountain besides. Besso, the Banker
'If he wanted to scrape piastres from the desert, said Eva, in a sweet but mournful voice, 'would Besso have given you the convoy of the Hadj without condition or abatement? The great Sheikh drew a long breath from his chibouque. After a momentary pause, he said, 'In a family there should ever be unity and concord; above all things, words should not be dark.
The horseman was the young Emir who was a guest the night before in the divan of Besso.
What sound is that? ''Tis the letter of the second Cabala, said Issachar, the son of Selim. And at this moment entered the chamber a faithful slave, who made signs to the physician, upon which Issachar rose, and was soon engaged in earnest conversation with him who had entered, Hillel tending the side of Besso.
'The tenth plague of Pharaoh, my child, replied Besso, in a tone of great vexation. 'Since the expulsion of Ibrahim, there has been nothing which has crossed me so much. 'Fakredeen? 'No, no; 'tis nothing to do with him, poor boy; but of one as young, and whose interests, though I know him not, scarcely less concern me. 'You know him not; 'tis not then my cousin. You perplex me, my father.
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