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I don't know; it was a mass of figures, and I mixed them up on purpose, being an honest fellow averse to spy's work. Oh, I've kept an eye on him, believe me! Ever since he killed a Syrian in the train I've had my doubts of him. Mashallah, what a murderous disposition the fellow has! Kill a man as soon as look at him indeed he would. Are you a prince in these parts?" "A banker." "Bismillah!
What's in it? How much will you pay me if I get it for you?" "Never mind what's in it. Will you get it, that's the point will you get it and bring it to me?" "That isn't the point at all," answered Jeremy. "The point is how much will you pay me if I do that?" "Very well, I will pay you fifty pounds." "Mashallah! You must need it awfully badly.
All the islanders in those seas practise it, and very often the figures that are drawn are very beautiful." "Mashallah! How wonderful is God! I should like to see it," rejoined the pacha. "Allah forbid," replied the renegade, "that I should expose my person to your highness. I know my duty better."
"But you have no battering train," said I. "Bah! we have a couple of ninety-six pounders, quite sufficient to blow the gates open; and then, hey for a charge!" said Loll Mahommed, a general of cavalry, who was a rival of Bobbachy's, and contradicted, therefore, every word I said. "In the name of Juggernaut, why wait for the heavy artillery? Have we not swords? Have we not hearts? Mashallah!
"Mashallah!" exclaimed the Syrian at last, his face all sweaty with excitement as he shrank back to avoid the spinning razor. "Where did you learn such accomplishments?" "Learn them?" answered Jeremy, still juggling. "I am a dervaish. I was born, not taught. I can ride through the air on cannon-balls, and whatever I wish for is mine the next minute. Look, I have one piastre. I wish for twenty.
Get out of my way while you are still able to go away whole, for if you remain here much longer, I'll teach you to be a little more obedient." "Let my guest go in peace, I say, and then go thine own way also!" "Why, what ails you, worthy Mussulman? Has anyone offended thee? Mashallah! what business is it of thine if I choose to strike off the head of a dog?
And now just the same sort of tempest which had overthrown his predecessor was shaking the seat of the mighty rock beneath his own feet. "Mashallah! the will of God be done!" exclaimed Achmed, kissing the sword of Muhammad, and a quarter of an hour later he went on board the ship destined for him with the banner of the Prophet borne before him.
I was eighteen months in the harem of Osman Ali, and never spoke one word. "Mashallah! but this is wonderful!" exclaimed the pacha "a woman hold her tongue for eighteen months! Who is to believe this?" "Not at all wonderful," replied the old woman, "when you recollect that she was required to speak." Once, and once only, did I nearly break through my resolution.
"The wisdom of your highness is brighter than the stars of the heaven," observed Mustapha. "Shall the slave be honoured with your bounty?" "Mashallah! bounty! I've given him his life, and, as he considers it of more value than an aga's, I think 'tis a very handsome present. Drown an aga, indeed!" continued the pacha, rising, "but it certainly was a very curious story.
Mashallah; whatso Allah willeth! By the blessing of our coming a hoard hath been hit upon, wait while we go down into this hiding-place and see what is therein." Then, they bade seize upon Ala al-Din and took his turban from his head, and officially registered all his monies and effects which were in the mansion.
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