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Now Musli was drunk with wine, Gül-Bejáze and Halil Patrona were drunk with love, so that not one of them had any exception to take to the stranger's words. Janaki was the only sober man among them, neither wine nor love had any attraction for him, and therefore he whispered in the ear of Halil: "For all you know this stranger may be a spy or a thief!" "What an idea!"
Instantly, I say, without the least delay." Musli accompanied his eloquence with such gesticulations that the Grand Vizier thought it prudent to fall back before him. "Don't you feel well?" he asked Musli, who had suddenly become silent. In his excitement he had forgotten the other demands. "Ah!
They were still in the midst of their intoxication of delight when the frequently before-mentioned neighbour of Halil, worthy Musli, thrust his head inside the door, and witnessing the scene would discreetly have withdrawn his perplexed countenance. But Halil, who had already caught sight of him, bawled him a vociferous welcome.
Musli felt his courage rising many degrees since he began bawling at a Grand Vizier. "Halil Patrona commands it to be done," he bellowed in Kabakulak's ear. The Vizier threw back his head. "Come, come, my son!" said he, "don't shout in my ear like that, just as if I were deaf. What did you say it was that Halil Patrona begs of me?"
And now Janaki sent the slave he had brought with him to the pastry-cook's while Musli skipped homewards and brought with him a tambourine of chased silver, which he could beat right cunningly and also accompany it with a voice not without feeling; and thus Halil's bridal evening flowed pleasantly away with an accompaniment of wine and music and kisses.
"Give me that banner!" bellowed Abdi for the third time, with a voice of thunder, at the same time drawing his sword. But now Musli twisted the pole round so that the mud-stained end which had been sticking in the earth rose high in the air, and he said: "I honour you, Abdi Pasha, and I will not hurt you if you go away.
Then Musli approached Janaki and saluted him on the shoulder, then, turning towards Gül-Bejáze, he touched with his hand first the earth and next his forehead, sat down beside Janaki on the cushions that had been drawn into the middle of the room, and made merry with them.
The Padishah, only four days ago, gave this office to Prince Ghyka, who is a wise and distinguished man. The Sultan cannot go back from his word." "A wise and distinguished man!" cried Musli in amazement. "What am I to understand by that? Is there any difference then between one Giaour and another?"
"Would that the angel Izrafil might blow his trumpet in thine ear!" said Musli to himself sotto voce. "I am not talking of his trade as a butcher," added he aloud. "I say that he is to be made Prince of Moldavia." Kabakulak now thought it just as well to show that he heard what had been asked, and replied very gravely: "You know not what you are asking.
And with that Gül-Bejáze embraced her husband and kissed him again and again, and smiled upon him with her large radiant eyes. "A very pretty story truly!" observed Musli, smacking his lips; "what a pity there is not more of it!" "Oh, no regrets, worthy Mussulman, there is more of it!" cried the Berber-Bashi, rising from his place; "just listen to the sequel of it!
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