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If it will not put you out I should be delighted to remain here, as long as you will let me, that I may listen to the music this worthy Mussulman here understands so well, and to the pretty stories which flow from the harmonious lips of this houri who has, I am persuaded, come down from Paradise for the delight of men."
He owned the lure, at last, with a bitter ruefulness. But he brightened up at that it was partly his duty to himself. Now he had all sorts of fool imaginings about this girl. He was remembering her as something lovelier than a Houri, more enchanting than fairy magic, more sweet than spring.
I am called Heliobas. A strange name? Oh, not at all! It is pure Chaldee. My mother as lovely an Eastern houri as Murillo's Madonna, and as devout as Santa Teresa gave me the Christian saint's name of Casimir also, but Heliobas pur et simple suits me best, and by it I am generally known. "'You are a Chaldean? I inquired. "'Exactly so.
And he repeated the following verses: Though my soul weary for distress and flutter fast for woe, Yet of its nature was it ne'er to buckle to a foe. Excuse me; for indeed my heart is like a book, whereof The superscription's nought but tears, that aye unceasing flow. Behold my cousin, how she seems a maid of Paradise, A houri come, by Rizwan's grace, to visit us below!
At which the stranger rejoiced with exceeding joy and Yunus gave him to drink again and again, till the wine got the better of him and he said, "Bid thy slave-girl sing." So she improvised this couplet, "A houri, by whose charms my heart is moved to sore distress: * Nor wand of tree nor sun nor moon her rivals I confess!"
In the dialect he jested with them, winked and nodded toward the curtained howdah. The guards laughed; they understood. Some disappointed houri was returning whence she had come. Ahmed took his time; he had no reason to hurry. Nothing must pass which would arouse the suspicions of the guards; and haste always alarmed the Oriental. To the colonel, however, things appeared to lag unnecessarily.
"He ought to practice in the country whatever you do, sir," said Arthur, "he ought to marry other people are going to do so and settle." "The very words that her ladyship used yesterday, Mr. Pendennis He ought to marry. Sam should marry, sir." "The town is full of temptations, sir," continued Pen. The old gentleman thought of that houri, Mrs. O'Leary.
Umballa recoiled. This was no longer Sa'adi's houri but the young woman who had mastered the lion in the railway train. Rage supplanted the passion in his heart. Since she would not bend, she should break. As her arm sank he sprang forward like a cat and seized her wrist. He was not gentle. The dagger tinkled as it struck the marble floor. He stooped for it.
I wish I could take a photograph as he stands at the door, with the steady eyes of a capable man of affairs, but the dress of a houri; about his loins he has twisted a piece of white cotton; a broad garland of drooping ferns passes over his forehead, crosses at the back of his head, and coming forward round his neck is fastened in a knot of greenery on his breast.
But on his ears continued to flow the honeyed words and the musical tones of the charming temptress; and, as she gradually developed to his imagination the destinies upon which he might enter, offering herself as the eventual prize to be gained by a career certain to be pushed on successfully through the medium of a powerful, though mysterious influence Florence, relatives, and friends, became as secondary considerations in his mind; and by the time the lady brought her long address to a conclusion that address which had grown more impassioned and tender as she proceeded Alessandro threw himself at her feet, exclaiming, "Lovely houri that thou art beauteous as the maidens that dwell in the paradise of thy prophet I am thine.
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