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Updated: May 8, 2025
''Earth and ocean search, East, West, and North, to the South, None will match the bright rubies and pearls of her mouth. 'Aha! what? O Ukleet! And he says: ''The lovely ones a bargain made With me, and I renounced my trade, Half-ruined; 'Ah! said they, 'return and win! To even scales ourselves we will throw in! How so? But let discreetness reign and security flourisheth!
Said she, 'Hie over to the broker opposite, and bring him hither to me. Ukleet departed, saying, 'To hear is to obey. She sat gazing on the Jewel and its counterchanging splendours in her hand, and the thought of Almeryl and his necessity was her only thought. Not ten minutes of the hour had passed before the women waiting on her announced Ukleet and the broker Boolp.
Shall I leave my wealth and all I possess void of eyes? and she so that I recognise her not behind the veil? Ukleet pushed the old miser jeeringly: 'You not recognise her? Oh, Boolp, a pretty dissimulation! Pledge her now a cup to the snatching of the veil, and bethink you of a fitting verse, a seemly compliment, something sugary.
Now, what she heard from Ukleet when he had recovered his wits, was that the Prince had a business with none save the lenders of money. So she spake to Ukleet in a kindly tone, 'Thou art mine, to serve me? He was as one fascinated, and delivered himself, 'Yea, O my mistress! with tongue-service, toe-service, back-service, brain-service, whatso pleaseth thy sweet presence.
Then the Vizier and Ukleet laughed till they fell on their backs; so Bhanavar took up his verse where he left it, singing, And to the cry Moon did make fair the following reply: 'Dotard, be still! for thy desire Is to embrace consuming fire.
Now, the twain lived together the circle of a full year of delightful marriage, and love lessened not in them, but was as the love of the first day. Little cared they, having each other, for the loneliness of their dwelling in that city, where they knew none save the porter Ukleet, who went about their commissions.
Then she whirled with them round and round as a tempest whirls; and when she had wound them to a fury, lo, she burst from the hissing circle and dragged Ukleet from the vault into the passage, and blocked the entrance to the vault. So was Queen Bhanavar avenged.
So at a certain hour of the night Ukleet was introduced into the garden of the harem, and he was in the darkness of that garden a white-faced porter with knees that knocked the dread-march together; but Bhanavar strengthened his soul, and he said to her, ''Twas the doing of Boolp the broker: and he whispered the Vizier of thee and thy beauty, O my mistress!
So they hearkened, and Ukleet was pledging Boolp, and passing the cup to him; but a sullenness had seized the broker, and he refused it, and Ukleet shouted, 'Out, boon-fellow! and what a company art thou, that thou refusest the pledge of friendliness? Plague on all sulkers!
Ukleet nodded at him, and repeated the distich: Men of worth and men of wits Shoot with two arrows, and make two hits. So he arranged with Boolp the same appointment as with the Vizier, and returned to Queen Bhanavar.
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