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"And thou art wise, Ilderim," said the Scot "wise though a Saracen, and generous though an infidel. I have witnessed that thou art both. Take, then, the guidance of this matter; and so thou ask nothing of me contrary to my loyalty and my Christian faith, I, will obey thee punctually. Do what thou hast said, and take my life when it is accomplished." "Listen thou to me, then," said the Saracen.
"I give you joy, Sheik Ilderim, that you have such servants as these. See," he continued, dismounting and going to the horses, "see, the gloss of their red coats is without spot; they breathe lightly as when I began. I give thee great joy, and it will go hard if" he turned his flashing eyes upon the old man's face "if we have not the victory and our " He stopped, colored, bowed.
Balthasar continued his gaze. "He came well recommended," Ilderim pursued, much puzzled. "You may know him as the son of Arrius, who was a noble Roman sailor, though" the sheik hesitated, then resumed, with a laugh "though he declares himself an Israelite of the tribe of Judah; and, by the splendor of God, I believe that he tells me!" Balthasar could no longer withhold explanation.
Simonides crossed his hands upon his breast again; Esther was anxious; Ilderim nervous. A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good-fortune. Taking the roll, Ben-Hur arose, struggling with emotion.
"I am just from the stalls, O sheik," he said, bowing gravely to Ilderim, who began combing his beard, while his eyes glittered with eager inquiry. "The horses are in perfect condition." Ilderim replied simply, "If they are beaten, I pray it be by some other than Messala." Turning then to Simonides, Sanballat drew out a tablet, saying, "I bring you also something of interest.
And he gave weeks to the American Independence War and the French Revolution. "He was a fine fellow and so clever that we were almost his worshippers. But I am not writing his autobiography but my own, so let him lapse herewith into posterity and well-merited oblivious. But the superior members did no poojah to anything. And he took us to hear the blind Mussulman they call Ilderim the Weeper.
Advancing a step in the course, he put them next into a trot; again progressing, he pushed into a gallop; at length he contracted the circles, and yet later drove eccentrically here and there, right, left, forward, and without a break. An hour was thus occupied. Slowing the gait to a walk, he drove up to Ilderim. "The work is done, nothing now but practice," he said.
"All the Parthians took from him in the great battle in which they slew him I have retaken this writing, with other things, and vengeance, and all the brood of that Mira who in his time was mother of so many stars. "Peace be to you and all yours. "This voice out of the desert is the voice of "Ilderim, Shiek." Ben-Hur next unrolled a scrap of papyrus yellow as a withered mulberry leaf.
Thereupon Ilderim settled himself upon the divan, as at this day merchants sit on their rugs in the bazaars of Damascus; and when fairly at rest, he stopped combing his beard, and said, gravely, "That thou art my guest, and hast drunk my leben, and art about to taste my salt, ought not to forbid a question: Who art thou?"
Ilderim clasped the beard overflowing his breast, and gazed at the speaker with eyes faintly twinkling through the shade of the heavy close-drawn brows. "In the next place," Ben-Hur continued, "I am an Israelite of the tribe of Judah." The sheik raised his brows a little. "Nor that merely.
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