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Updated: June 15, 2025
At this speech Mallem started up from his seat, advanced most submissively to Yussuf, took the paper and raised it to his head, addressing Yussuf with the most abject servility, "O most excellent, most valiant, and most powerful beeldar, how well doth the caliph select his officers! How favoured am I by Allah with your happy presence!
"My advice to you, Mallem," said he, "is, that you stir not out of your door to-day there is no such hurry nor to-morrow, nay, even a week, or a month, or a year. I may say, stir not at all, for you have my protection; and therefore be under no trouble of going to the palace at all." It was near sunset when this affair was settled.
"I merely wait upon you, good Mallem Osman, to request that you will immediately repair to the palace, carrying with you five bags, each containing one thousand dirhems, of which there appears at present to be no chance of receiving an asper.
FIERI: A. 331, a; G. 546, Rem. 1; H. 498, I. n. ESSE: emphatic, = vivere; see n. on 21. EGO VERO etc.: 'I however would rather that my old age should be shorter than that I should be old before my time'. MALLEM: see n. on 26 vellem. NEMO CUI FUERIM: cf. Plaut. Mercator 2, 2, 17 quamquam negotium est, numquam sum occupatus amico operam dare. AT: as in 21, where see n.
Deeming it beneath his new-fledged dignity to walk, he mounted one of the asses ready for hire at the corner of the streets, ordering the driver to hasten before to clear the way, and ascertain which was the dwelling of the confectioner. The house of Mallem Osman was soon discovered, for he was the most celebrated of his trade, and had an immense business.
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