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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Belike Fortune may her bridle turn * And Time bring weal although he's jealous hight; Forward my hopes, and further all my needs, * And passed ills with present weals requite." And when I drew near the fire aforesaid lo! it was a palace with gates of copper burnished red which, when the rising sun shone thereon, gleamed and glistened from afar showing what had seemed to me a fire.
Bough pretended he had accidentally dropped the coin, picked it up, and went away. That night he and the woman quarrelled fiercely. She could hear them raging at each other as she lay trembling. Then came shrieks, and the dull sound of the sjambok cutting soft human flesh. In the morning the woman had a black eye; there were livid weals on her tear-blurred face. She packed her boxes, snivelling.
"Oh, Bashador," she pleaded, addressing him as though a foreign envoy, "I take refuge with God and with thee! I have no one else. I have fled from my master, who has cruelly used me. See my back!" Suiting action to word, she slipped aside the coverings from her shoulder and revealed the weals of many a stripe, tears streaming down her face the while.
They fluttered before his face, they struck with their beaks at his eyes, they beat him with their wings and tore with their claws bleeding weals in his weather beaten skin. Laughing, he fought with them. Standing upright in the shaking nest, he cut at them with his sharp knife and forgot in the pleasure of the play his danger and his pursuers.
He then uncovered his shoulders, and shewed the ladies the livid weals of the blows he had received. "Look," said he, "judge whether these strokes could come to me in a dream, or when I was asleep. For my part, I can affirm, that they were real blows; I feel the smart of them yet, and that is a testimonial there is no room to doubt.
Thou art aware that thou wilt be beaten with rods and pricked with goads, chained and starved in a dungeon, very probably blinded, very possibly burned with fire? "'All these things I am prepared to undergo, said Abdallah; and he embraced me and bid me farewell. "After certain moons he returned covered with weals and scars, and his bones protruded through his skin.
Her face was hidden, but from under the coat one long arm swayed limp, its whiteness hideously marred with jagged purple weals, from which the blood still oozed, trickling down and dripping from the tips of the fingers, those beautiful ringless fingers that I knew and loved so well.
But to-night a fearful grayness was mingled with the brown, his lips were purple... and there were marks of strangulation upon the lean throat ever darkening weals made by clutching fingers. He began to breathe stentoriously and convulsively, inhalation being accompanied by a significant gurgling in the throat.
And this is my story. The Khalif marvelled at her story and said to the portress, 'And thou, how camest thou by the weals on thy body? 'O Commander of the Faithful, answered she: Story of the Portress. 'My father died and left me great wealth, and soon after his death I married one of the richest men of Baghdad.
"He may have been very poor, and may have lost all his money," continued Miriam; "anyhow, he wasn't cruel. I would sooner have hung old Scrutton, who flogged little Jack Marshall for stealing apples till his back was all covered with bloody weals."
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