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They would have done the same for thee hadst thou behaved with common prudence. If not a priest, thou mayest still become a well-paid schoolmaster by their protection. Thou wouldst do well, therefore, to forsake this Mîtri, who has nothing to offer. Be advised, I entreat thee!" Asad was a tall, lean youth, lantern-jawed, and of a serious countenance, in age a few months younger than Iskender.
Then he thought of the priest Mîtri, and of the beautiful child who for a moment had ensnared his fancy; and was overwhelmed with pity for himself. He belonged to nobody. The missionaries loved him so little that they were content to cast him off for small offences; while for the Orthodox he remained a Protestant, a filthy thing.
And from that day forth nothing but misfortune befell in that Yashka took to drink, the Jewess gave way to repining, and Mitri had to go perambulating the town with piteous invitations to 'come and see, my brethren, to what depths I have sunk! And though, eventually, the Jewess died of a bloody flux, of a miscarriage, the past was beyond mending, and, while the son went to the bad, and took to drink for good and all, the father 'fell a victim by night to untimely death. Yes, the lives of two folk were thus undone by 'the thorn-bearing company of Judaea. Like ourselves, the Hebrew has a destiny of his own.
I have heard him scoff at all who change the faith that they were born in. Wait a little, I beseech thee, until he is gone!" "Is that in truth all?" replied Mîtri, fully satisfied. "The right is with thee. We must wait awhile. But Allah grant thou die not in the interval." The season recommended by Elias as most favourable for their adventure now drew near.
On the return there was a feast set forth in the house of Mîtri, and great rejoicing of the whole community.
He went into the station house, looked round, glanced at the overseer’s wife, and suddenly went back to the entrance. “I won’t go to Tchermashnya. Am I too late to reach the railway by seven, brothers?” “We shall just do it. Shall we get the carriage out?” “At once. Will any one of you be going to the town to-morrow?” “To be sure. Mitri here will.” “Can you do me a service, Mitri?
Iskender followed at a distance, contrary to the command of Mîtri, who had bidden him wait without with the women and children, till he saw them stop and whisper together, when he struck off independently. Pressing his way through the dark foliage, hung with yellowing globes and sweet with the scent of orange-flowers, he reached a secret place whence he could watch what happened.
"I have come too late, I find," the small white-bearded clergyman remarked to Mîtri, who had forced him to be seated and set food before him. "I knew not that the baptism had taken place. My desire was only to ascertain that Iskender was earnest in this change of faith, and not impelled by anger at a treatment he conceived to be unjust."
By dint of thus withholding information, he himself acquired the firm conviction that there was really information to withhold. It was not till more than a week after the coming of the famous paint-box that Iskender found time to go again to the house of Mîtri.
I say nought against thy taking him this day to Mîtri, though the visit has made a noise. Our father Mîtri is an upright man. But these " He jerked his thumb in the direction of the other dragomans, now howling in chorus to the strains of the concertina. " These are all rivals enemies. In the season thy Emîr would seem as nothing to them; but now he is the only game in sight.
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