Allah save us! Bismillah! Is it Allah or the Jinoon? Merciful!
Compassionate! Curses on them both! Allah! Allah!"The soldiers were affected by the fears of the Basha, and they huddled together in a group.But Katrina fell to laughing.
"Brava!" she cried."Brava! Oh! a brave imposture! What did I say long ago? Blind? No more blind than you were! But a pretty pretence!
Well acted! Very well acted! Brava! Brava!"Thus she laughed and mocked, and the Basha, hearing her, took shame of his crawling fears, and made a poor show of joining her.
Israel heard them, and for a moment, seeing how they made sport of Naomi, a fire was kindled in his anger that seemed to come up from the lowest hell.But he fought back the passion that was mastering him, and at the next instant the laughter had ceased, and Ben Aboo was saying--"Guards, take both of them.Set the man on an ass, and let the girl walk barefoot before him; and let a crier cry beside them, 'So shall it be done to every man who is an enemy of the Kaid, and to every woman who is a play-actor and a cheat!' Thus let them pass through the streets and through the people until they are come to a gate of the town, and then cast them forth from it like lepers and like dogs!"