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"This is her dying words to you," continued the smith. "Did you speak?" "I didna, but I wish you would take your arm off the haik." "She's loath to die without seeing you. Do you hear, man? You shall listen to me, I tell you." "I am listening, smith," the warper replied, without rancour. "It's but right that you should come here to take your pleasure on a shamed man."
Presently in rushed a crowd of black and brown servants, followed by a figure which I recognised as that of Lyal, though he had much improved his appearance by fastening a haik over his shoulders and another round his waist, while he waved above his head a torch, at the risk of setting his high straw-cap on fire.
"Good!" said I, "you will make an apt scholar; but, mind, that I did not say hake, but haik; the words are, however, very much alike; and, as you observe, upon your hake you may hang my haik. We will now proceed to the numerals." "What are numerals?" said Belle. "Numbers. I will say the Haikan numbers up to ten. There, have you heard them?" "Yes." "Well, try and repeat them."
"The books in these cases," said he, "contain the masterpieces of Haik learning." "No," said I, "all I know of the learning of the Haiks is their translation of the Bible." "You have never read Z ?" "No," said I, "I have never read Z "
‘Good!’ said I, ‘you will make an apt scholar; but mind that I did not say hake, but haik; the words are, however, very much alike; and, as you observe, upon your hake you may hang my haik. We will now proceed to the numerals.’ ‘What are numerals?’ said Belle. ‘Numbers. I will say the Haikan numbers up to ten. There—have you heard them?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, try and repeat them.’
At their advance a miserable embrowned figure, barefooted and half clad in a ragged haik, roped round his waist, threw himself before the fair- haired child, crying out in imperfect Arabic, 'Spare her, spare her, great Lord! much is to be won by saving her. 'We are come to save her, said Arthur in French. 'Maitre Hebert, do you not know me? Hubert looked up. 'M. Arture! M. Arture!
But all of a sudden I remembered that the Armenian appeared to have altered his intentions towards me: he appeared no longer desirous that I should render the Haik Esop into English for the benefit of the stock-jobbers on Exchange, but rather that I should acquire the rudiments of doing business in the Armenian fashion, and accumulate a fortune, which would enable me to make a figure upon ’Change with the best of the stock-jobbers. ‘Well,’ thought I, withdrawing my hand from my pocket, whither it had again mechanically dived, ‘after all, what would the world, what would this city, be without commerce?
He informed me that since the death of the last Haik monarch, which occurred in the eleventh century, Armenia had been governed both temporally and spiritually by certain personages called patriarchs; their temporal authority, however, was much circumscribed by the Persian and Turk, especially the former, of whom the Armenian spoke with much hatred, whilst their spiritual authority had at various times been considerably undermined by the emissaries of the Papa of Rome, as the Armenian called him.
He was a tall elderly man, with sharp but rather whimsical features, and might have been called good-looking, had he not been one-eyed, a very common deformity in this country. His body was swathed in an immense haik. Finding that I could understand Moorish, he instantly began talking with immense volubility, and I soon learned that he was a Mahasni.
The Moor has a weakness for whitewashed houses, for long white garments, for veiled women: there shall be no outer windows in his house, nor in his own private life. Ugliness there may be, enough and to spare, inside these white cities it oozes out sometimes; but as far as possible let a haik and a blank wall enshroud it all in mystery.
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