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Carefully he closed the portal, slowly he advanced, with a subdued step; he approached the lady and the stranger. 'Alroy! said the astonished Honain, the light fell from his hand. 'Alroy! exclaimed the lady, with a bewildered air: she turned pale, and leant against a column. 'Daughter of the caliph! said the leader of Israel; and he advanced, and fell upon his knee, and stole her passive hand.
We'll not discuss it. 'Tis something; if a stranger, at least thou art not a renegade. The world goes well with thee, my Lord Honain.
'The Cadi, the Cadi, cried the foremost of them, who was Abdallah, 'drag him to the Cadi. 'Noble lord, cried the youth, extricating himself by a sudden struggle from the grasp of his captors, and seizing the robe of Honain, 'I am innocent and injured. I pray thy help.
Pride, perhaps even hope, came to his aid; all the associations seemed to counsel exertion; for a moment he seemed the same Alroy. 'I rejoice to find at least thee safe, Honain. 'I also, if my security may lead to thine. 'Still whispering hope! 'Despair is the conclusion of fools. 'O Honain! 'tis a great trial. I can play my part, and yet methinks 'twere better we had not again met.
They did not stab thee. Thou seest me here communing with thy murderers. What then? I am innocent. Ask them, dread ghost, and call upon their fiendish souls to say I am pure. They would make me dark as themselves, but shall not. 'Honain, Honain! exclaimed the Princess in a terrible whisper as she flew to the Physician. 'He is wild again. Calm him, calm him.
I wish I were a star, added the Princess in a deep rich voice, and with a pensive air; 'a star in the clear blue sky, beautiful and free. Honain, Honain, the gazelle has broken her chain, and is eating my roses. Alroy rushed forward and seized the graceful truant. Honain shot him an anxious look; the Princess received the chain from the hand of Alroy, and cast at him a scrutinising glance.
Miriam listened to him in silence, nor could he, with all his consummate art, succeed in extracting from her the slightest indication of her own opinion as to their expediency. They parted, Honain as sanguine as the wicked ever are.
Honain now gave to Alroy a velvet bag, which he requested him to carry, and then they descended the steps and entered the covered boat; and, without any directions to the rower, they were soon skimming over the water.
The consummate artist had seized the advantage afforded to him by the ruddy veins of the precious stone, and had formed them in bold relief into two vast and sinuous serpents, which shot forth their crested heads and glittering eyes at Honain and his companion. The physician of the Caliph, taking his dagger from his girdle, struck the head of one of the serpents thrice.
At length, after the lapse of nearly an hour from their entrance, the boat stopped, and was moored against a quay. The curtains were withdrawn, and Honain and his companion debarked.
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