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Yusuf had gone out on horseback; he returned, and, after the usual compliments, we dined alone in a summerhouse, from which we had a fine view of the sea, and in which the heat was cooled by a delightful breeze, which blows regularly at the same hour every day from the north-west; and is called the mistral.
He took off his spectacles, brushed them, wiped his eyes repeatedly, and then knelt again to his painting, bidding Iskender watch the way of it. When the youth suggested that more light was needed, Ibrahîm abu Yûsuf shook his head decidedly. This room, he explained, had been chosen precisely on account of its obscurity, which meant seclusion.
Strange to remember now and here, that the man who built the Kutubia tower for this thousand-year-old-city of Yusuf ben Tachfin, gave the Giralda to Andalusia. Prayers are over the last Amen is said. The dilals separate, each one going to the pens he presides over, and calling upon their tenants to come forth.
The days were at their shortest, though that was not very short, closing in at about five o'clock, so that there was not much time to spare. Arthur began to feel some alarm at the continued drowsiness of the little boy, who only once muttered something, turned round, and slept again. 'What have you done to him? asked Arthur anxiously. 'The poppy, responded Yusuf.
Drunken and libertine cadis are they, formerly servants to some General Yusuf or the like, who get intoxicated on champagne, along with laundresses from Port Mahon, and fatten on roast mutton, whilst before their tents the whole tribe waste away with hunger, and fight with the harriers for the bones of the lordly feast.
Upon the other hand, we all three argued with Sheykh Yûsuf that he should leave the place at once and lay his case before the Governor. 'We will go with him, said Suleymân to me, 'in order that your Honour may be made acquainted with the Governor a person whom you ought to know. His property will not be damaged in his absence, for they fear the law.
So in the end the big Christian came along. Zeyn, interpreting fealty to Yusuf to mean care in some measure for this infidel's well-being, began at once with a few minutes' riding each day beside him. These insensibly expanded to more than a few. He presently liked the infidel. "He is a man!" said Zeyn and that was the praise that he considered highest.
And I would have thee purge thy style, once and for all, of just those lifelike touches which these fools admire." Iskender, of sheer laziness, was content to humour the old man; and soon acquired such skill in practice that he could have wrought with his eyes shut, as the Sheykh Abu Yûsuf virtually did, for he was almost blind.
Looking up in alarm, he met a sign from Yusuf and presently a whisper, 'No hurt done 'tis safer thus And by this time there were alarming sounds on the air.
Such were my thoughts, and, as Yusuf could not guess them, it was useless to make a confidant of him. A few days afterwards, I dined with the Pacha Osman and met my Effendi Ismail. He was very friendly to me, and I reciprocated his attentions, though I paid no attention to the reproaches he addressed to me for not having come to breakfast with him for such a long time.
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