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I was then a little girl, and went one day to see the Prince of India, his residence being opposite Uel's on the other side of the street. He was studying some big books, but quit them, and picked me up, and asked me who I was? I told him Uel was my father. What was my name? Lael, I said.
Lael looked out from her hiding, but as quickly drew back, crowding closer to the Prince. To calm her he said, lightly, "Fear nothing, O my Gul Bahar! A pretty race we are having with the cloud yonder; we are winning, and it is not pleased. There is no danger." She answered by doubling the folds of the gown about her head.
Fortunately the people started in good humor, and meeting nothing to break the mood, they permitted the Prince to accomplish his journey without interruption. The companionship of the crowd was really agreeable to him; he hardly knew whether it were pleasanter to be able to excite such respectful curiosity than to gratify it successfully. It might have been otherwise had Lael been with him.
Certainly the Prince was pleading with effect, and laying up happiness in great store to cheer him through unnumbered sterile years inevitably before him after time had resolved this Lael into a faint and fading memory, like the other Lael gone to dust under the stone at Jerusalem. The first half of the night was nearly spent when he arose to conduct her across the street to Uel's house.
She surveyed him from head to foot; then turned her eyes toward Lael, sight of whom speedily exorcised the suspicion which for the instant held her hesitant. "I acknowledge the obligation imposed by the situation." she replied; "and being a Christian as well as a woman, I cannot without reason justifiable in sight of Heaven deny the help you ask.
At the same moment Lael commenced shivering and complaining of cold. The air had undergone a sudden change. Presently Nilo's red cloak was sheltering her. The boat was in position to bring everything into view, and he spoke to the rowers: "A storm is rising." They ceased work, and looked over their shoulders, each for himself. "A blow from the sea, and it comes fast.
It may have had origin in the higher prescience sometimes an endowment of the spirit by which we stand advised of a friend or an enemy; most likely, however, it was a consequence of the curious tales abroad in Constantinople; for at the recognition up sprang the history of the Prince's connection with Lael, and her abandonment by him, the more extraordinary from the evidences of his attachment to her.
These three men are very frequently mentioned together by Cicero; cf. below, 43, Lael. 18. NIHIL AGEBANT: observe that nihil agebat is put at the beginning of the first sentence, nihil agebant at the end of the second; chiasmus.
Lael. 74 tanta quanta maxima potest esse distantia. TAM DIU DUM: this is not exactly equivalent to the ordinary tam diu quam, but there is ellipsis 'so long as this, I mean while, etc.. Cf.
The metaphor in condīta, 'seasoned', is also common; cf. Lael. 66 condimentum amicitiae. QUAMQUAM: 'though indeed', introducing a necessary correction of the last words nec senectus mores mutaverat. For this corrective quamquam cf. n. on 2.
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