What profit is life with loss of honor?
Keep your eyes open; everything depends on that, Orion!" He succeeded in hastily collecting his thoughts, and exclaimed in a voice which lacked little of its usual eager cheerfulness: "How dismal you all look! It is indeed a terrible disaster that the dog should have handled the poor girl so roughly, and that our people should have behaved so outrageously; but, as I told you this morning, worthy Merchant, the guilty parties shall pay for it with their lives.

My father, I am sure, will agree that you should deal with them according to your pleasure, and our leech Philippus, in spite of his youth, is a perfect Hippocrates I can assure you! He will patch up the fine fellow--your head-man I mean, and as to any question of compensation, my father--well, you know he is no haggler." "I beg you not to add insult to the injury that I have suffered under your roof," interrupted Haschim.

"No amount of money can buy off my wrath over the spilt blood of a friend--and Rustem was my friend--a free and valiant youth.

As to the punishment of the guilty: on that I insist.
Blood cries for blood.

That is our creed; and though yours, to be sure, enjoins the contrary, so far as I know you act by the same rule as we.
All honor to your physician; but it goes to my heart, and raises my gall to see such things take place in the house of the man to whom the Khaliff has confided the weal or woe of Egyptian Christians.