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Updated: June 3, 2025
I doubted if my convulsions were convulsions or only feigned; I doubted if I was asleep or awake; I doubted whether I was in a trance, or in another world, or dead, or "Friend Hudusi," interrupted Mustapha, "we want the facts of your story, and not your doubts. Say I not well, your highness? What is all this but bosh? nothing." "It is well said," replied the pacha.
So interwoven in my frame is doubt, that I sometimes am unwilling to admit, as a fact, that I exist. I believe it to be the case, but I feel that I have no right to assert it, until I know what death is, and may from thence draw an inference, which may lead me to a just conclusion. My name is Hudusi. Of my parents I can say little.
I doubt whether we shall be able ever to moisten it again." "That doubt your sublimity ought to resolve immediately. Hudusi, Murakhas my friend, you are dismissed."
I never knew of any man, however brave he might be, who fought for love of fighting, or amusement; we all are trying in this world to get money; and that is, I believe, the secret spring of all our actions." "Is that true, Mustapha?" inquired the pacha. "May it please your sublime highness, if not the truth, it is not very far from it. Proceed, Hudusi."
The next morning the pacha and his minister, after the business of the divan, with their heads aching from the doubts of Hudusi, or the means that they had taken to refute them, in not the best humour in the world listened to the continuation of them as follows:
The next morning the pacha and his minister, after the business of the divan, with their heads aching from the doubts of Hudusi, or the means that they had taken to remove them, in not the best humour in the world listened to the continuation of them, as follows:
I have heard it observed, continued Hudusi, that the sudden possession of gold will make a brave man cautious, and he who is not brave, still more dastardly than he was before. It certainly was the case with me; my five hundred pieces of gold had such an effect, that every thing in the shape of valour oozed out at my fingers' ends.
Is it for him that we are to mourn?" "Yes," replied I, "he was a lion, and he is in Paradise." My mother commenced a bitter lamentation; but of a sudden recollecting herself, she said, "but, Hudusi, it's no use tearing one's hair and good clothes for nothing. Are you sure that your father is dead?" "Quite sure," replied I. "I saw him down." "But he may only be wounded," replied my mother.
The money and bag were taken from me I was dismissed by the hakim, and after receiving one hundred blows from the ferashes, I was dismissed by the cadi. It was my fate and I have told my story. Is your slave dismissed? "No," replied the pacha; "by our beard, we must see to this, Mustapha; say, Hudusi, what was the decision of the cadi? Our ears are open."
The Frank physician was then fined one hundred sequins more; fifty for feeling the pulse, and fifty more for looking at a Turkish woman's tongue. The young woman was dismissed to the pacha's harem, the old woman to curse as much as she pleased, and Hudusi with full permission to doubt any thing but the justice of the pacha. "Mashallah! God be praised! we are rid of that fellow and his doubts.
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