Then something struck on it, perhaps the holy Tanofir, perhaps another, and it knew what note to sound.

So it was when I cursed you in the boat.

So it was when I walked back with the eunuch, meaning to kill him on the road, and then remembered that the death of one vile eunuch would not help you at all, whereas alive he could bring me to the presence of the King, if I paid him, as I did out of the gold in your purse which I carried.
Moreover he earned his hire, for when the King grew dull, wine not yet having taken a hold on him, it was he who brought me to his mind as one who might amuse him, being so ugly and different from others, if only for a few minutes, after the women dancers had failed to do so." "And what happened then, Bes ?" "Then I was fetched and did my juggling tricks with that snake I caught and tamed, which is in my pouch now.

You should not hate it any more, Master, for it played your game well.

After this the King began to talk to me and I saw that his mind was ill at ease about you whom he knew that he had wronged.