[The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link book
The Lion of Petra

CHAPTER V
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The next morning Grim told her that her eyes were like a young gazelle's, so my reputation as a _hakim_ rose several degrees.
"Is he mad ?" growled Narayan Singh.

"Ah, each man has his weakness! He and I have played with death a dozen times, but I never knew him lose his head.

So he is woman-crazed?
What next, I wonder!" The girl had lots of encouragement, for, not counting the younger men, who were hell bent for any kind of mischief, and constantly egged her on, old Ali Baba spent half of each day in the tent expounding to Grim the ethics of such situations; and they were as simple as the code of Moses.
"Love thy neighbor's wife if she will let you.

Defeat thy neighbor in all ways whenever possible.

On these two hang all amusement and prosperity." And Grim was much too wise to pretend to Ali Baba any other motive than expedience.


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