Part 26 (1/2)
It is now four years that I have e under poverty, I was induced to hness heard; for how can I ever hope topresent?
”Holy Prophet! how strange! Why Mustapha was a barber, and so was I,”
cried the pacha
”God is great!” answered the renegade, prostrating himself ”Then I command your fleet?”
”From this hour,” replied the pacha ”Mustapha, make known my wishes”
”The present in coade, ”is a favourite with the men”
”Then send for him and take off his head Is he to interfere with the commands of Mahomet?”
The vizier bowed, and the pacha quitted the divan
The renegade, with a smile upon his lips, and Mustapha with astonishreat talent, Selim,”
observed the vizier
”Thanks to your introduction, and to my own invention, it will at last be called into action Recollect, vizier, that I aade quitted the divan, leaving Mustapha still in his astonishment
VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER SEVEN
”Mustapha,” said the pacha, taking his pipe out of hisin silence, ”I have been thinking it very odd that our Holy Prophet (blessed be his naiven himself so ade rascal, Huckaback, whose religion is only in his turban By the sword of the Prophet, is it not strange that he should send him to cohness,” replied Mustapha, ”that he should command your fleet”
”Mashallah! Was it not the will of the Prophet?”
Mustapha sreat story-teller,” observed the pacha, after another pause
”He was,” drily replied Mustapha ”No kessehgou of our true believers could equal hi of an Isauri hness Aware that your highness would require amusement, and that it was the duty of your slave, who shi+nes but by the light of your countenance, to procure it, I have since yesterday, when the sun went down, despairing to find his glory eclipsed by that of your sublih the whole of the world, and have discovered, that in the caravan now halted on the outskirts of the town, there was a fae to the shrine of our Prophet: and I have despatched trustyhim into the presence of the Min Bashi+, to whom your slave, and the thousands whom he rules, are but as dust:” and Mustapha bowed low
”Aferin, excellent:” exclaimed the pacha; ”and ill he be here?”
”Before the tube now honoured by kissing the lips of your highness shall have poured out in ecstasy the incense of another bowl of the fragrant weed, the slippers of the kessehgou will be left at the threshold of the palace Be chesm, on my eyes be it”
”'Tis well, Mustapha Slave,” continued the pacha, addressing the Greek as in attendance, with his arround; ”coffee and the strong water of the Giaour”
The pacha's pipe was refilled, the coffee was poured down their respective throats, and the forbidden spirits quaffed with double delight, arising from the very circumstance that they were forbidden
”Surely there must be some ood is intended for true believers; and is not this good? How then can it be forbidden? Could it be intended for the Giaours? May they, and their fathers' graves, be eternally defiled!”
”A a deep sigh