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Updated: June 21, 2025
There is not an arm that would have dared to touch her. Let us hasten to her. It is not too late. 'Alas! it is too late, said Astarte. 'It was an enemy's arm that undertook the deed. 'An enemy! What enemy among your people could the daughter of Besso have found?
'I have taken a Cabala, said Issachar, the son of Selim, 'and three times that I opened the sacred book, there were three words, and the initial letter of each word is the name of a person who will enter this room this day, and every person will bring news. 'But what news? sighed Besso. 'The news of Tophet and of ten thousand demons?
'Bury me in Jehoshaphat, murmured Besso, as he sank back. 'But, my uncle, there is hope. 'Speak, then, of hope, replied Besso, with sudden vehemence, and starting from his pillow. 'Truly I have seen a child of the mountains, who persists in the tale that our Eva has escaped. 'An enemy's device! Are the mountains ours? Where are the troops?
Is it some accursed Kurd that has stolen her sheep; or some Turkman, blacker than night, that has hankered after her bracelets? 'Nothing of all this, yet more than all this. All shall be told to you, great Sheikh, yet before I speak, tell me again, can you get me tidings of Eva, the daughter of Besso?
'All the world is not as sensible of the obligation as yourself, noble traveller. 'But who are the world? Do you mean the inhabitants of Europe, which is a forest not yet cleared; or the inhabitants of Asia, which is a ruin about to tumble? 'The railroads will clear the forest, said Besso. 'And what is to become of the ruin? asked Tancred.
The daughter of Besso wore a vest of white silk, fitting close to her shape and descending to her knees; it was buttoned with large diamonds and restrained by a girdle of pearls; anklets of brilliants peeped also, every now and then, from beneath her large Mamlouk trousers of rose-coloured silk that fell over her slippers, powdered with diamonds.
Fakredeen came instantly to Damascus to welcome them, hugged Besso, wept like a child over his sister, sat up the whole night on the terrace of their house smoking his nargileh, and telling them all his secrets without the slightest reserve: the most shameful actions of his career as well as the most brilliant; and finally proposed to Besso to raise a loan for the Lebanon, ostensibly to promote the cultivation of mulberries, really to supply arms to the discontented population who were to make Fakredeen and Eva sovereigns of the mountain.
Consul-General Laurella smiled superciliously, and then said, 'But the question is, what is the Eastern question? 'For my part, said Hillel Besso, in a most epigrammatic manner, 'I do not see the use of settling anything. 'The Eastern question is, who shall govern the Mediterranean? said the Emir. 'There are only two powers who can do it: Egypt and Syria.
'I have taken a Cabala, said Issachar, the son of Selim, 'and the news will be good. 'To whom and from whom? Good to the Pasha, but not to me! good to the people of Haleb, but not, perhaps, to the family of Besso. 'God will guard over his own. In the meanwhile, I must replace this bandage, noble Besso. Let me rest your arm upon this cushion and you will endure less pain.
'Besso is not ill, or his daughter would not be here. This arrow flies not straight. Does he want to scrape my piastres? These sons of Israel that dwell in cities will mix their pens with our spears. I will be obstinate as an Azafeer camel.
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