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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Didst thou mark, O Tsamanni, with what a grace she moved? lithely and nobly as a young gazelle. Verily, so much beauty was never created by the All-Wise to be cast into the Pit." "May it not have been sent to comfort some True-Believer?" wondered the subtle wazeer. "To Allah all things are possible." "Why else, indeed?" said Asad.
He turned to the crestfallen Ayoub, so crestfallen that in the contemplation of him Tsamanni was fast gathering consolation for his own discomfiture, vicariously tasting the sweets of vengeance. "What say you now, O perspicuous wazeer?" "I say," choked Ayoub, "that since by the favour of Shaitan he hath so much wealth he must prevail."
She came to it straight enough on that uncompromising summons. She pointed to Rosamund. "It concerns that slave," said she. "I sent my wazeer to the sok to-day with orders to purchase her for me." "So I had supposed," he said. "But it seems that she caught thy fancy, and the fool suffered himself to be outbidden." "Well?" "Thou'lt relinquish her to me at the price she cost thee?"
The crowd, pressing back, went down upon its knees and grovelled as Asad-ed-Din on a milk-white mule rode forward, escorted by Tsamanni his wazeer and a cloud of black-robed janissaries with flashing scimitars. The curses that had greeted the violence of his negroes were suddenly silenced; instead, blessings as fervent filled the air. "May Allah increase thy might! May Allah lengthen thy days!
The Basha sat in the shade of an awning enthroned upon a divan, attended by his wazeer Tsamanni and by Marzak, and guarded by a half-dozen janissaries, whose sable garments made an effective background to the green and gold of his jewelled robes. In his white turban glowed an emerald crescent. The Basha's countenance was dark and brooding as he watched the advent of that line of burdened camels.
"The price is now one thousand and one hundred philips. Wilt thou suffer defeat, O wazeer?" "Since Allah wills. I have no authority to go further." "Then at one thousand and one hundred philips, Ayoub, she is...." But the sale was not yet to be completed. From the dense and eager throng about the gates rang a crisp voice "One thousand and two hundred philips for the Frankish girl."
Against all the wise men of the Nazarenes who dwell in Tanjah the wazeer fought in the name of the Exalted of God, so that no one of them could settle on this land to take it for himself and break into the bowels of the earth. To be sure, in Wazzan and far in the Eastern country the accursed French grew in strength and in influence, for they gave protection, robbing the Sultan of his subjects.
"There is my sponsor," he made answer, grinning in the very best of humours, savouring to the full his enemy's rage and discomfiture, and savouring it at no cost to himself. "Shall I count out one thousand and one hundred philips, O dalal." "If the wazeer Tsamanni is content." "Dost thou know for whom I buy?" roared Tsamanni.
Down was his head thrust, and still down, until his fat body gave way and he lay supine and writhing in the dust of the sok. "Shall I strangle thee, thou father of filth, or shall I fling thy soft flesh to the hooks to teach thee what is a man's due from thee?" And as he spoke he rubbed the too daring fellow's face roughly on the ground. "Mercy!" squealed the wazeer.
Another of his favourite amusements was to give out that he was not well, and could not be seen; and then, with the knowledge only of his faithful Grand Wazeer, to disguise himself as a pedlar, load a donkey with cheap wares, and travel about. In this way he found out what the common people said about him, and how his judges and governors fulfilled their duties.
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