Long may you live; may the favour of those gods you worship attend you, and in the pursuit of wisdom, of wealth, of war, and of love, may the good grain of all be garnered in your bosom, and the wind of prosperity winnow out the chaff of them to fall beneath your feet.

Prince, I have greeted you as it behoves me to greet the blood of Solomon and Pharaoh; now I add a word.

Now I greet you as a father greets the man who has saved his only and beloved daughter from death, or shameful bondage.

Know you, friends, what this stranger did since to-night's moonrise?
My daughter was at worship alone yonder without the walls, and a great savage set on her, purposing to bear her away captive.

Ay, and he would have done it had not the prince Aziel here given him battle, and, after a fierce fight, slain him." "No great deed to kill a single savage," broke in the king Ithobal, who had been listening with impatience to Sakon's praises of this high-born stranger.
"No great deed you say, King," answered Sakon.