Indeed had he been a few score of years younger I am not sure but that he would have forgotten some of his holiness because of her.

Still he came to see matters in the true light at last--for your sake, Master, not for mine, since his wisdom told him it was needful that I should become King of the Ethiopians again, to do which I must be married.

At any rate he worked upon the mind of that Cup of his--having first settled that she should procure a younger sister of her own to fill her place--in such fashion that when at length I spoke to her on the matter, she did not say no." "No doubt because she was fond of you for yourself, Bes.

A woman would not marry even to please the holy Tanofir." "Oh! Master," he replied in a new voice, a very sad voice, "I would that I could think so.

But look at me, a misshapen dwarf, accursed from birth.