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Updated: May 23, 2025
How many glories are there not in blackness and how well saith the poet: Dost thou not see that musk, indeed, is worth its weight in gold, Whilst for a dirhem and no more a load of lime is sold? Black eyes cast arrows at men's hearts; but whiteness of the eyes, In man, is judged of all to be unsightly to behold." "It sufficeth," said her master. "Sit down."
They sojourned there awhile, his sickness ever increasing and she tending him, till all their money was spent and she had not so much as a dirhem left.
Indeed, I did not pick up the dirhem, because of its value in my eyes; but because on one of its faces is the likeness of the King and on the other his name; and I feared lest any should unwittingly set his foot upon it, thus dishonouring the name and presentment of the King, and I be blamed for the offence. The King wondered at his wit and shrewdness and ordered him yet other four thousand dirhems.
She pleased him and he said, 'O Hassan, what is bidden for this damsel? 'Four thousand five hundred dinars, replied the broker, 'as an upset price. Quoth the Vizier, 'I take that bid on myself. When the merchants heard this, they hung back and dared not bid another dirhem, knowing what they did of the Vizier's tyranny.
Moreover, he let cry abroad in his kingdom, saying, 'It behoveth none to order himself by women's counsel; for whoso followeth their advice, loseth, with his one dirhem, other two.
They say Kisloch and his set pocket their fifty thousand by the job. 'May each dirhem prove a plague-spot! 'Amen! Dost remember Abner? 'May I slay my mother if I ever forget him. He spoke to his men like so many lambs. What has become of the Lady Miriam? 'She is here. 'That will cut Alroy. 'He was ever fond of her. Dost remember she gained Adoram's life?
His tax consisted in part of a money payment, in part of a payment in kind; but both payments were fixed and invariable, each measure of ground being rated in the king's books at one dirhem and one measure of the produce.
When I entered, I fell down at full length and fainted, throwing the knife and the dirhem from my hand. As soon as I came to myself, I told her what had passed and said, "Indeed, I shall never enjoy my desire." The sight of my tears and my passion redoubled her distress on my account, and she said, "Verily, I can no more.
They may say what they like, but compared with him, Alp Arslan is a white-livered Giaour. 'Here is confusion to him and to thy last move. There's the dirhem, I can play no more. May I slay my mother, though, but I did not think he would let himself be taken. 'By the blessing of my father, nor I; but then he was asleep. 'That makes a difference. He was betrayed. 'All brave men are.
But he threw me back the two pieces, saying, "I will have no more than was agreed upon between us." I pressed him to take them, but could not prevail upon him; so I gave him the dirhem and the danic, and he went away. Next morning early, I went to the station, but found him not; so I enquired for him and was told that he came thither only on Saturdays.
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