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Here she and her daughters asked him innumerable questions as to his country and its customs, and then about Rhodes and the Order to which he belonged. Their surprise was great when they heard that the knights were bound to celibacy. "But why should they not marry if they like? Why should they not have wives, children, and homes like other people?" Khadja asked.
They were slightly veiled; but, as Gervaise afterwards learnt, Ben Ibyn was not a Moor, but a Berber, a people who do not keep their women in close confinement as do the Moors, but allow them to go abroad freely without being entirely muffled up. "Khadja," the merchant said, "this is the Christian slave I purchased today.
Any one who caught a glimpse of that hair of his, however far distant, would know that he was a Frank." "We might stain his face and hands with walnut juice," Khadja said, "he would pass as a Nubian. Some of them are tall and strong." "A very good thought, wife; it would be an excellent disguise. So shall it be." He touched the bell again. "Tell Muley I would speak with him.
Gervaise had learnt from Muley that Ben Ibyn was one of the richest merchants in Tripoli, trading direct with Egypt, Syria, and Constantinople, besides carrying on a large trade with the Berber tribes in the interior. He returned to the house with his basket full of provisions, and having handed these over to the cook, he went to the private apartments, as Khadja had requested him to do.
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