My secrets are thine.
They shall all be thine--for years I have sought an honest man.

Thou art safe whether to go or to stay." "It may be so.

I heed it not.

My life is as that of a gull--if the wind carry it out to sea, it is lost.

As my uncle went I shall go one day.
Thee will never do me ill; but do I not know that I shall have foes at every corner, behind every mooshrabieh screen, on every mastaba, in the pasha's court-yard, by every mosque?
Do I not know in what peril I serve Egypt ?" "Yet thou wouldst keep alive Nahoum! He will dig thy grave deep, and wait long." "He will work with me for Egypt, Effendina." Kaid's face darkened.
"What is thy meaning ?" "I ask Nahoum's life that he may serve under me, to do those things thou and I planned yesterday--the land, taxation, the army, agriculture, the Soudan.