My own speech is English, in which, if you are acquainted with it, I should prefer to talk." "I know not English, which doubtless is some language that has arisen since I left the world.

Perhaps later you shall teach it to me.

I tell you, you anger me whom it is not well to anger, because you believe nothing that passes my lips and yet do not dare to say so." "How can I believe one, Ayesha, who if I understand aright, speaks of having seen a certain bath two thousand years ago, whereas one hundred years are the full days of man?
Forgive me therefore if I cannot believe what I know to be untrue." Now I thought that she would be very angry and was sorry that I had spoken.

But as it happened she was not.
"You must have courage to give me the lie so boldly--and I like courage," she said, "who have been cringed to for so long.

Indeed, I know that you are brave, who have heard how you bore yourself in the fight yesterday, and much else about you.