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Updated: May 7, 2025
'They come from God. 'So does everything. Is everything sacred? 'They are the deep expression of his will. 'According to Jabaster. Ask the man who prays in yonder mosque, and he will tell you that Jabaster's wrong. 'After all, thou art a Moslem? 'No. 'What then? 'I have told you, a man. 'But what dost thou worship? 'What is worship? 'Adoration due from the creature to the Creator.
'He lives in faith; the pious ever prosper. 'A glorious dreamer! Though our moods are different, I ever loved him. And thyself? Thou art not what thou seemest. Tell me all. Jabaster's friend can be no common mind. Thy form has heralded thy fame. Trust me. 'I am Alroy. 'What! the Prince of our Captivity? 'Even so. 'The slayer of Alschiroch? 'Ay! 'My sympathy was prophetic.
The world was in the streets and coffee-houses. 'I am somewhat before my time, said Jabaster. 'Conspirators are watchful. I am anxious for the meeting, and yet I dread it. Since he broke this business, I have never slept. My mind is a chaos. I will not think. If 'tis to be done, let it be done at once. I am more tempted to sheathe this dagger in Jabaster's breast than in Alroy's.
'Oh! she could do anything next to the Queen. 'Before her, I say, before her. He has refused the Queen, he never refused the Lady Miriam. 'Because she asked less. 'Dost know it seemed to me that things never went on so well after Jabaster's death? 'So say I. There was a something, eh? 'A sort of a peculiar, as it were, kind of something, eh? 'You have well described it.
It is not thus written; and were it so, I'll pit my inspiration against the prescience of my ancestors. I also am a prophet, and Bagdad shall be my Zion. The daughter of the Voice! Well, I am clearly summoned. I am the Lord's servant, not Jabaster's.
'Sweet voice, that in Jabaster's distant cave de-scendedst from thy holy home above, and whispered consolation, breathe again! Again breathe thy still summons to my lonely ear, and chase away the thoughts that hover round me; thoughts dark and doubtful, like fell birds of prey hovering around a hero in expectation of his fall, and gloating on their triumph over the brave.
'Annals of victory, that will dawn again. 'If redemption be but another name for carnage, I envy no Messiah. 'Art thou Jabaster's brother? 'So our mother was wont to say: a meek and blessed woman. 'Lord Honain, thou art rich, and wise, and powerful. Thy fellow-men speak of thee only with praise or fear, and both are cheering. Thou hast quitted our antique ark; why, no matter.
Suddenly he advanced with a quick step, and, placing his hand upon Jabaster's arm, said, in a low, enquiring tone, 'You are speaking of this marriage? 'Of that which ruined Solomon. 'Listen to me, Jabaster, said Alroy, interrupting him, in a calm but peremptory tone, 'I cannot forget that I am speaking to my master, as well as to my friend.
Jabaster's patriot soul needs not the idle schooling of a child. If he be silent, 'tis that his wisdom deems that the hour is not ripe, but when her leader speaks, Israel will not be slack. 'The Moslemin in council! We know what must come next. Our national existence is in its last agony. Methinks the time is very ripe, Abidan.
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.
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