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It is even as he sayeth, for I have travelled in their country, and such is the custom of that uncivilised nation. Mashallah! but he lives in awe and trembling." "By the beard of the Prophet, he does not appear to show it outwardly," replied the pacha; "but that may be the custom also." "Be chesm, on my eyes be it," replied Mustapha, "it is even so.
The Dominican then handed from his breast a discoloured piece of parchment. "Very good," replied the pacha, rising. "Mustapha let it be put into Arabic by the Greek slave, who shall read it to us some evening when we have no story-tellers." "Be chesm! Upon my eyes be it," replied Mustapha, bowing low, as the pacha retired to his harem.
Be chesm, upon my head be it, if I lie. He was less than a man, for he had no beard; he had no turban, but a piece of net-work, covered with the hair of other men in their tombs, which he sprinkled with the flour from the bakers, every morning, to feed his brain.
The Dominican then handed from his breast a discoloured piece of parchment. "Very good," replied the pacha, rising. "Mustapha! let it be put into Arabic by the Greek slave, who shall read it to us some evening when we have no story-tellers." "Be Chesm! Upon my eyes be it," replied Mustapha, bowing low, as the pacha retired to his harem.
"Aferin, excellent:" exclaimed the pacha; "and when will he be here?" "Before the tube now honoured by kissing the lips of your highness shall have poured out in ecstasy the incense of another bowl of the fragrant weed, the slippers of the kessehgou will be left at the threshold of the palace. Be chesm, on my eyes be it." "'Tis well, Mustapha.
"Be chesm, on my eyes be it," replied Mustapha; and they all retired for the night. "What is the cause?" demanded the pacha, hastily, as next day Mustapha listened with apparent patience to the long details of one of the petitioners for justice. "It is, O lord of wisdom, a dispute between these men, as to a sum of money, which they received as guides to a Frank, who journeyed into the interior.
"How what sort of a country must it be, when a man cannot have two wives? Inshallah! please the Lord, we may have hundreds in our harem! Does he not laugh at our beards with lies? Is this not all bosh, nothing?" "It is even so, as the Frank speaketh," replied Mustapha. "The king of the country can take but one wife. Be chesm, on my eyes be it, if it is not the truth."
"Be chesm on my eyes be it. Guards, remove this woman from the sublime presence." "It appears to me," said the pacha to Mustapha, "that this old woman's story may be true. The description of the harem is so correct commanding one day, bastinadoed the next." "Who can doubt the fact, your sublime highness? The Lord of Life dispenses as he thinks fit."
"Be chesm on my eyes be it. Guards, remove this woman from the sublime presence." "It appears to me," said the pacha to Mustapha, "that this old woman's story may be true. The description of the harem is so correct commanding one day, bastinadoed the next." "Who can doubt the fact, your sublime highness? The Lord of Life dispenses as he thinks fit."
"Be chesm, on my eyes be it," replied Mustapha; and they all retired for the night. "What is the cause?" demanded the pacha hastily, as next day Mustapha listened with apparent patience to the long details of one of the petitioners for justice. "It is, O lord of wisdom, a dispute between these men, as to a sum of money which they received as guides to a Frank, who journeyed into the interior.
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