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Updated: June 4, 2025
March at our head; we will attack it, and no object shall be able to resist us. All we ask of you for this important service is a share in the dowry, your future protection, and a delay of some days to prepare ourselves for the enterprise." Bhazad, in his impatience, thought himself already on the very point of happiness.
From the description which it gave of him, he had no doubt that the young adventurer whom he kept in prison was the well-beloved son of the powerful monarch of Syria. What reason had he to applaud himself for not having hurried his judgment! He sent immediately for the handsome prisoner, and asked his name. "My name is Bhazad," replied the young man. "You are the son, then, of King Cyrus.
The impatient Bhazad saw these preparations with uneasiness. The attention which was paid to them retarded his happiness. At length, however, the order for his departure was given, and he might begin his journey. A small army escorted him, but every halt which it made appeared an age to this impatient Prince.
Bhazad, after having made a confession of his passion to Cyrus, suffered from him some reproaches for his reserve. "Why have you concealed from me the state of your heart?" said he to him. "Are you ignorant that I have all power over the Prince whose daughter you are desirous to marry? Are you afraid that he will not accept the honour of our alliance?"
Bhazad thought it necessary to discover to these vagabonds his rank, his projects, and the fatal delay of nine months, which his impatience had been unable to endure. Upon this declaration, the chief of the robbers replied to him, "We will shorten this delay. We know the castle in which the object of your love dwells, and the strength that defends it.
"Sire," replied Bhazad, after having revealed to him the secret of his escape, "finding myself seized among robbers, in whose crimes I had involuntarily shared, I preferred death to shame, and was unwilling to dishonour a name so illustrious." "Son," replied the sage monarch, "there has been a great deal of imprudence in your behaviour.
This discourse roused the curiosity of Bhazad more than his pride; and, addressing himself in private to the man who spoke thus: "Might one know from you," said he to him, "the name of this beauty, in whose praise you have just now spoken?"
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