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Updated: May 17, 2025
It would have been less cruel to slay him at once. "Oh! leave me at least water water!" exclaimed the poor victim of malice and hatred. "We'll leave you nothing but your own worthless drugs, hakeem! take that!" cried Sadi, as he flung at Yusef's head a tin case containing a few of his medicines.
Schimper to translate what he was going to say. "You, Hakeem, are my friend. I have nothing against you; but others have abused me, and you must come up with me to witness their trial." Then ordering Cantiba Hailo to give me his mule, he mounted, I and Mr. Rosenthal following; the latter on foot, dragged the whole way by the soldiers who had first seized him.
Now, you are a great hakeem, my child of children; go then to the young prince, and see what can be done: for if he die, we can scarcely ransom him, and I shall lose the piastres, and your father the backsheesh which I meant to have given him on the transaction. 'This is very woful, murmured Eva to herself, and not listening to the latter observations of her grandfather.
Other members of the party had now arisen, each intent on his own affairs, one arranging his garments, another settling his turban straight on his head, the hakeem adjusting the little box of instruments and simples he carried at his girdle, the Moslem astrologer spreading his prayer carpet at the end of the veranda and prostrating himself in the direction of Mecca.
His slumber lasted long, and he awoke quite free from fever, though of course some days elapsed before his strength was fully restored. Great was the gratitude of Azim, the Sheik, for the cure of his only son; and great was the admiration of the simple Bedouins for the skill of the wondrous hakeem. Yusef soon had plenty of patients.
'I want the Rose of Sharon to see your lord, said the young Emir, very anxiously, 'for she is a great hakeem among our people. 'Perhaps in the desert, where there is none to be useful, I might not be useless, said Eva, with some reluctance and reserve. 'Hope has only one arrow left, said Baroni, mournfully. 'Is it indeed so bad?
"'I salute thee, O hakeem, our deliverer, he exclaimed, kissing the hem of my robe. 'My royal mother is in the palankeen, and craves for sanctuary in your zenana. "'Let her pass, I replied, and I urged the docile mules toward the second archway that led to the women's courtyard. "At my bidding the inner gates opened, and they closed again when the palankeen had entered.
The merchant paid no heed to the interruption. He went on: "Each of us is an inscrutable mystery to the other. Each soul is veiled to every other soul, and is naked to itself alone." "O prince of philosophers in pedlar's disguise!" murmured the hakeem.
Theodore's rage was by no means abated by this act of cruelty; he advanced a few steps, then stopped, turned, his lance in rest, looking around, the very image of ungovernable fury. His eyes fell upon Mr. Rosenthal. "Seize him!" cried he; Immediately several soldiers rushed forward to obey the imperial command. "Seize the man they call a Hakeem."
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