Once his mind is at ease about you, he will satisfy all the others.

Are you agreeable ?" "Why not ?" So we smoked a cigarette together after the coffee, and then set forth on foot, for the distance was not great, preceded and surrounded by armed retainers.

I imagine the armed men were more for the sake of appearance than protection.

Ben Nazir seemed popular.

But the escort drove other pedestrians out of the way as roughly as they did the unspeakable dogs that infested every offal-heap.