I will go to Constantinople, to Asia Minor, or wherever I am sent.

The things I should see here would no longer be fitting for me to behold." To this Kursheed's envoys made answer that without doubt these terms would be conceded.

Ali then touched his breast and forehead, and, drawing forth his watch, presented it to the keeper of the wardrobe.
"I mean what I say, my friend," he observed; "my word will be kept.

If within an hour thy soldiers are not withdrawn from this castle which has been treacherously yielded to them, I will blow it up.

Return to the Seraskier, warn him that if he allows one minute more to elapse than the time specified, his army, his garrison, I myself and my family, will all perish together: two hundred thousand pounds of powder can destroy all that surrounds us.