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"Is this amendment of thy fault, good Hakem, or repetition of it?" "I await your commands. What service can Hakem render?" But Maria relapsed again into silence. She seemed to hesitate in making the communication she had designed. Meantime, the arrival of her father was announced, and the slave left the apartment.
"We were able to observe a group of the aborigines at their devotions. Conspicuous was a not ungraceful young female, whose head, ornamented with a plume of feathers, towered above the enclosure in which she was secluded, while an aged fakir, hakem or medicine man pronounced from a loftier structure resembling a sentry box."
A sovereign resident in Egypt was more sensible of the importance of Christian trade; and the emirs of Palestine were less remote from the justice and power of the throne. But the third of these Fatimite caliphs was the famous Hakem, a frantic youth, who was delivered by his impiety and despotism from the fear either of God or man; and whose reign was a wild mixture of vice and folly.
"The law cannot reach him through its usual servants," he said; "it is a bold enterprise I propose to you to decapitate a general at the head of his troops." If this was a measure which hardly another minister than Laski would have contemplated, it was one also which he would have hardly found another than Hakem to undertake and accomplish.
Hakem was fierce in his persecution, but his successors were more tolerant. When the Seljukian Turks got control there, the harassed pilgrims had constant occasion to complain of insult and inhumanity.
But the next day Zobéide gave up pouting and began very docilely to eat the greens, and when the boy Hakem carried her next bunch to her he said slyly: "Effendi, she is growing smaller!" The clergyman attempted to shrug his shoulders, but it was impossible to disguise the fact from himself Zobéide had certainly shrunk! And within an hour all Damascus knew that Zobéide had shrunk. When Mr.
To this general state of affairs came to be added, about the end of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh century, incidents best calculated to aggravate the evil. Hakem, khalif of Egypt from 996 to 1021, persecuted the Christians, especially at Jerusalem, with all the violence of a fanatic and all the capriciousness of a despot.
"Sand after sand," said she, musing to herself "Sand after sand, thought after thought. The same sand ever trickling there; the same thought ever coursing through my mind. Oh, love! love! They say it enlarges the heart; I think it contracts it to a single point." "Hakem," she said, after a pause, and turning towards the slave, "you are true to my father, will you be true also to me?"
Yet the calamities of Jerusalem were in some measure alleviated by the inconstancy or repentance of Hakem himself; and the royal mandate was sealed for the restitution of the churches, when the tyrant was assassinated by the emissaries of his sister.
It was one of those long intense looks which show that the person on whom it is fixed is still more the object of meditation than of vision where it is the soul that looks. Hakem gazed like a devotee upon the sacred image of his saint. Maria, quite unconscious of this gaze, pursued her meditations. Her eye caught the hour-glass that stood on a small table beside her.
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