Let me not leave her, for she is without knowledge of good and evil.
Spare me a little while longer, though I am stricken in years.
For her sake spare me, Oh Lord--it is the last of my prayers--the last, O Lord, the last--for her sake spare me!"God did not hear the prayer of Israel.Next morning a guard of soldiers came out from Tetuan and took him prisoner in the name of the Kaid.
The release of the poor followers of Absalam out of the prison at Shawan had become known by the blind gratitude of one of them, who, hastening to Israel's house in the Mellah, had flung himself down on his face before it.