As for your threats, we will do our best to bring them to nothing.
Knowing the customs of the East, we do not send back your gifts to you, since to do so would be to offer insult to one of the greatest men in all the world; but if you choose to ask for them, they are yours--not ours.

Of your dream we say that it was but an empty vision of the night which a wise man should forget .-- Your servant and your niece." Then he signed, and Rosamund signed after him, and the writing was done up, wrapped in silk, and sealed.
"Now," said Sir Andrew, "hide away this wealth, since were it known that we had such treasures in the place, every thief in England would be our visitor, some of them bearing high names, I think." So they laid the gold-embroidered robes and the priceless sets of gems back in their coffer, and having locked it, hid it away in the great iron-bound chest that stood in Sir Andrew's sleeping chamber.
When everything was finished, Sir Andrew said: "Listen now, Rosamund, and you also, my nephews.

I have never told you the true tale of how the sister of Saladin, who was known as Zobeide, daughter of Ayoub, and afterwards christened into our faith by the name of Mary, came to be my wife.

Yet you should learn it, if only to show how evil returns upon a man.

After the great Nur-ed-din took Damascus, Ayoub was made its governor; then some three-and-twenty years ago came the capture of Harenc, in which my brother fell.