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On the third day he recovered consciousness and remembered the awful charge he had laid on Prexaspes, and that it was only too possible he might have executed it already. At this thought he trembled, as he had never trembled in his life before. He sent at once for the envoy's eldest son, who was one of the royal cup-bearers.
She resigned her burden to the spit and gave the loaf to the boy, wiped her fingers upon her apron, and said: 'That pig shall help thee far upon thy road. 'Goes it into my wallet? he asked joyfully. She answered: 'Nay; into the Cleves envoy's weam. 'You speak in hard riddles, he uttered.
Nevertheless, he hoped that the Lord would so conduct the affairs of the Prince of Conde that the Most Christian King and the Archdukes would all be satisfied. These pious and consolatory commonplaces on the part of Peter Pecquius deeply affected the Constable. He fell upon the Envoy's neck, embraced him repeatedly, and again wept plentifully.
Barung, our Sultan, shall make you his head wife; or, if that does not please you, you shall wed whom you will" and, perhaps by accident, the envoy's roving eyes rested for a moment upon Oliver Orme. "Leave, then, your rock-rabbits, who dare not quit their cliffs when but three messengers wait without with sticks," and he glanced at the spear in his hand, "and come to dwell among men.
"Those were his words." "And Nitetis was, without question, the more beautiful and the nobler of the two sisters," said Croesus in confirmation of the envoy's remark. "But it certainly did strike me that Tachot was her royal parents' favorite." "Yes," said Darius, "without doubt.
'Take them! Take them! she nudged him with her elbow. 'Six hours ye have to read and to copy. 'What papers are these? he muttered, his voice thick betwixt incredulous joy and fear. 'They be the envoy's papers, she said; 'doubtless these be his letters to the king of this land.... What there may be I know not else.
This, however, was what it was required to do, according to the British envoy's reading of his orders, and the matter terminated in a fruitless exchange of argumentation. In April, 1808, Rose quitted the country, and redress for the "Chesapeake" injury remained in abeyance for three years longer.
Frontenac knew well how to deal with such a situation. He threw the letter in the envoy's face and turned his back upon him. The unhappy man, who understood French, heard the Governor give orders that a gibbet should be erected on which he was to be hanged. When the Bishop and the Intendant pleaded for mercy, Frontenac seemed to yield.
But the Envoy's elation was short-lived. Dost Mahomed was yet to cause him much solicitude. Defeated in Bamian, he was ready for another attempt in the Kohistan country to the north of Cabul.
Where the embassy embarked there is no record, but, being blown out of their course, the boats finally made the coast of Dewa, where several of the envoy's suite were killed by the Yemishi. The envoy himself reached Nara safely, and, representing his sovereign as the successor of the Koma dynasty, was hospitably received, the usual interchange of gifts taking place.
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