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Neforis, meanwhile, did not return at once to her husband but went to find Paula. This business must be settled on all sides and at once.
Here her husband interrupted her with an angry exclamation: "Leave the girl quite out of the question wife!" "As if I supposed her to be the thief!" retorted Neforis indignantly, and she shrugged her shoulders as Orion, in mild reproach, also cried: "Mother! consider..." and the merchant asked: "Do you mean the young girl from whom I had to take such hard words last night?
I have been a good husband, a faithful father, have I not, O Saviour? Have I not, Neforis? And that which is my best and surest comfort is that for many long years I have administered justice in this land, and never, never once and Thou my Refuge and Comforter art my witness! never once consciously or willingly have I been an unrighteous judge.
"Sebek the steward told him all about it from me before the hour of audience and tried to have Hiram released." "And he said . . . ?" "The lady Neforis said it was all a mere will-o'-the-wisp, and my lord agreed with her. Then your uncle forbade Sebek to betray the matter to you, and sent word to me that he would possibly send Hiram to Sinai when the horse-fair was over.
The slave-girl, scarcely yet sixteen, ignorant and unprotected, had not dared nor desired to resist her master's handsome son, and when Orion had set out for Constantinople heedless and weary already of the girl who had nothing to give him but her beauty Dame Neforis found out her connection with her son and ordered the head overseer to take care that the unhappy girl should not "ply her seductive arts" any more.
It was no secret that even her uncle's wife, worthy Neforis, did not care for her haughty niece and only suffered her to please the invalid. And what business had a Melchite at Memphis, under the roof of a good Jacobite? Every word the dragoman spoke breathed the scorn which a mean and narrow-minded man is always ready to heap on those who share the kindness of his own benefactors.
"Neforis!" her husband said in mild reproach; and he would have reproved her more sharply but that since he had become a slave to opium he had lost all power of asserting himself vigorously whether in small matters or great. Ere long the Mukaukas had fallen into an uneasy sleep; but he opened his eyes more frequently than usual.
At the close of this communication, to which Neforis listened with a vacant stare, horrified and at last almost crushed, the interpreter begged that she would grant the Vekeel an audience. "Not just yet give me a few minutes," said the widow, bringing out the words with difficulty: first she must have recourse to her secret specific. When she had done so, she expressed her readiness to see Obada.
"There is, I know, no excuse for my conduct. Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. . ." "Destined us for each other, you would say. Quite true! And it was all to please Dame Neforis that you put your arms round me, under the acacias, and called me your own, your all, your darling, your rose-bud?
Neforis, meanwhile, did not return at once to her husband but went to find Paula. This business must be settled on all sides and at once.
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