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'Old Bostenay and the Lady Miriam are borne prisoners to Bagdad. 'Prisoners? 'But so; all will be well with them, I trow. The Lord Honain is in high favour with the conqueror, and will doubtless protect them. 'Honain in favour? 'Even so. He made terms for the city, and right good ones. 'Hah! he was ever dexterous. Well! if he save my sister, I care not for his favour. 'There is no doubt.
'Who is this? asked an Egyptian merchant, in a low whisper, of the dealer whose stuffs he was examining. ''Tis the Lord Honain, replied the dealer. 'And who may he be? continued the Egyptian. 'Is he the Caliph's son? 'A much greater man; his physician. The white mule stopped at the very stall where this conversation was taking place.
'Ibrahim, see that this worthy merchant receive a thousand. 'As many thanks, my Lord Honain. The Caliph's physician bowed gracefully. 'Advance, pages, continued Honain; 'why this stoppage? Ibrahim, see that our way be cleared. What is all this? A crowd of men advanced, pulling along a youth, who, almost exhausted, still singly struggled with his ungenerous adversaries.
Its appearance on the river had not prepared Alroy for the extent of the palace itself. It seemed infinite, and it was evident that he had only viewed a small portion of it. While they were moving on, there suddenly rose a sound of trumpets. The sound grew nearer and nearer, louder and louder: soon was heard the tramp of an approaching troop. Honain drew Alroy aside.
Honain recoiled, pale and quivering. Schirene sprang to his arm. 'What said he, Honain? Thou dost not speak. I never saw thee pale before. Art thou, too, mad? 'Would I were! 'All men are growing wild. I am sure he said something. I pray thee tell me what was it? 'Ask him. 'I dare not. Tell me, tell me, Honain! 'That I dare not. 'Was it a word? 'Ay! a word to wake the dead. Let us begone.
'Worthy Morgargon, I bring you a remembrance. The Abyssinian showed his tusks, larger and whiter than the lion's, as he grinningly received the tribute of the courtly Honain; and he uttered a few uncouth sounds, but he could not speak, for he was a mute.
'I think so too. There is no other man who might be dangerous? Zalmunna and Scherirah cast their eyes upon the ground. There was a dead silence, broken by the prophetess. 'A judgment hath gone forth against Honain! 'Nay! he is Lord Jabaster's brother, said Abidan. 'It is enough to save a more inveterate foe to Israel, if such there be. 'I have no brother, Sir.
He goes not to the sacrifice; they say he keeps no fast, observes no ritual, and that their festive fantasies will not be balked, even by the Sabbath. I have not seen him thrice since the marriage. Honain has told her I did oppose it, and she bears to me a hatred that only women feel. Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes: women have one.
But if, instead of bows and blessings, thou, like thy brethren, wert greeted only with the cuff and curse; if thou didst rise each morning only to feel existence to be dishonour, and to find thyself marked out among surrounding men as something foul and fatal; if it were thy lot, like theirs, at best to drag on a mean and dull career, hopeless and aimless, or with no other hope or aim but that which is degrading, and all this, too, with a keen sense of thy intrinsic worth, and a deep conviction of superior race; why, then, perchance, Honain might even discover 'twere worth a struggle to be free and honoured. 'I pray your pardon, sir; I thought you were Jabaster's pupil, a dreaming student.
Upon one of these cushions, in the middle of the divan, sat a lady, her eyes fixed in abstraction upon a volume of Persian poetry lying on her knees, one hand playing with a rosary of pearls and emeralds, and the other holding a long gold chain, which imprisoned a white gazelle. The lady looked up as Honain and his companion entered. She was very young, as youthful as Alroy.
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