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He had been obliged to release the captives from the stocks, but Hib had taken the precaution to place on the formidable athlete a pair of leg irons joined by a shackle. Not merely were Glaucon’s arms pinioned by a stout cord, but the great Libyan was gripping them tightly. Lars and Adherbal conducted the other prisoners, whose feet, however, were not bound.
Very well, then go and leave poor old Hib here to die. I can't possibly live another hour among these creatures." "What would you have me do then?" "Let me live with you as long as we are in Persia." "Have they treated you so very roughly?" "I should think they had indeed. It is loathsome to think of. They forced me to eat out of the same pot with them and cut my bread with the same knife.
When Phanes had finished, he gave him a penetrating look and said: "Where are my papers?" They are in Onuphis' hands. He is looking among them for the document I want." "I expected to hear that. Be so good as to tell me what the box is like, which Hib thought proper to bring over to Persia?" "It is a small ebony trunk, with an exquisitely-carved lid.
Seeing, however, a friendly and familiar smile on the face of the other, he quickened his steps, and, holding out his hand with a heartiness for which none of his Persian acquaintances would have given him credit, exclaimed in Egyptian: "Can I believe my eyes? You in Persia, old Hib? I should as soon have expected the sky to fall as to have the pleasure of seeing you on the Euphrates.
We’ll bide a little longer, though, before we say ‘farewell’ to our passengers. The gods may help yet.” Hib and his fellows were marching the prisoners to the poop, when the sight of the war-ship told Phormio all the story. No gag now hindered his tongue. “Oh, dragons from Carthage, are you going to murder us?” he began in tones more indignant than terrified.
The physician did not need Phanes' assurance; he had known his old servant too well and too long not to be able to read his simple, open features, on which his innocence was written as clearly as in the pages of an open book. "I did not mean to reproach you, old Hib," he said kindly, coming up to him. "How can any one be so angry at a simple question?"
Among the papers which your old servant Hib brought with him in a small box, there must be some letters from a certain Sonnophre, a celebrated accoucheur, your own father, which . . ." In the hieratic medical papyrus in Berlin, women are often spoken of as assisting at such times. In the medical Papyrus Ebers certain portions are devoted to diseases peculiar to women.
The rest you knew already." Nebenchari bowed assent and gave Hib a sign to leave the room, which the old man obeyed, grumbling and scolding in a low tone as he departed. When the door had closed on him, Nebenchari, the man whose calling was to heal, drew nearer to the soldier Phanes, and said: "I am afraid we cannot be allies after all, Greek." "Why not?"
No untrained eye can follow the winding maze of streets in Marrakesh, and it is from the Moors we learn that the town, like ancient Gaul of Cæsar's Commentaries, has three well defined divisions. The Kasbah is the official quarter, where the soldiers and governing officials have their home, and the prison called Hib Misbah receives all evil-doers, and men whose luck is ill.
When Phanes had finished, he gave him a penetrating look and said: "Where are my papers?" "They are in Onuphis' hands. He is looking among them for the document I want." "I expected to hear that. Be so good as to tell me what the box is like, which Hib thought proper to bring over to Persia?" "It is a small ebony trunk, with an exquisitely-carved lid.
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