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Updated: June 21, 2025
Thou shouldst have said so earlier. 'Tis thus I shall answer the Basha should he question me, and the Basha is just." "I would not be thee, Ayoub not for the throne of Istambul." "Nor I thee, Tsamanni; for thou art jaundiced with rage." And so they stood glaring each at the other until the dalal called them back to the business that was to do.
"There is my sponsor," he made answer, grinning in the very best of humours, savouring to the full his enemy's rage and discomfiture, and savouring it at no cost to himself. "Shall I count out one thousand and one hundred philips, O dalal." "If the wazeer Tsamanni is content." "Dost thou know for whom I buy?" roared Tsamanni.
This was the Nazir Dalal, a man of no importance, but at the same time a man in whom the Nawab appeared to have some confidence. As he was constantly at the Factory, I had opportunities of telling him many things of particular interest to the Nawab, and I believed that by politeness and presents I had brought him over to our interests.
"So he will," said the dalal, "when thou canst restore the dead to life," and he turned to the portly Ayoub, who was plucking at his sleeve. He bent his head to catch the muttered words of Fenzileh's wazeer. Then, in obedience to them, he ordered Rosamund to be brought forward.
The dalal moved on, the girl following him but contesting every step of the way with those who impelled her forward, and reviling them too in hot Castilian. She drove her nails into the arms of one and spat fiercely into the face of another of her corsair guards.
"Here is a noble twain," the dalal announced, "strong of muscle and long of limb, as all may see, whom it were a shameful thing to separate. Who needs such a pair for strong labour let him say what he will give." He set out on a slow circuit of the well, the corsairs urging the two slaves to follow him that all buyers might see and inspect them.
By Allah, she is worthy to grace the Sultan's own hareem." He said no more than the buyers recognized to be true, and excitement stirred faintly through their usually impassive ranks. A Tagareen Moor named Yusuf offered at once two hundred. But still the dalal continued to sing her praises.
Calm and dignified he ran his hands over them feeling their muscles, and then forced back their lips and examined their teeth and mouths. "Two hundred and twenty for the twain," he said, and the dalal passed on with his wares, announcing the increased price he had been offered. Thus he completed the circuit and came to stand once more before Ali. "Two hundred and twenty is now the price, O Ali!
The only dissentient voice in the Currency Committee had been that of the one Indian member, a Bombay bullion broker, Mr. D. Merwanji Dalal, who probably had more practical knowledge and experience of the problem than all the ten signatories of the Majority Report, and he had pleaded in vain for the retention of the old ratio of fifteen rupees to the sovereign.
"Ay," said Ali, "but consider me those lean shanks and that woman's arm." "'Tis a fault the oar will mend," the dalal insisted. "You filthy blackamoors!" burst from Lionel in a sob of rage. "He is muttering curses in his infidel tongue," said Ali. "His temper is none too good, you see. I have said five philips. I'll say no more."
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