Tell him that he cannot expect us to adopt it until we know what particular brand of rot it is that he wants us to believe.

Tell him that if he will instruct us, we are perfectly willing to listen to his teaching, and you can add that any creed which turns out such beauties as him, and that other bounder with the black beard, must claim the attention of every one." With bows and suppliant sweepings of his hands the dragoman explained that the Christians were already full of doubt, and that it needed but a little more light of knowledge to guide them on to the path of Allah.
The two Emirs stroked their beards and gazed suspiciously at them.
Then Abderrahman spoke in his crisp, stern fashion to the dragoman, and the two strode away together.

An instant later the bugle rang out as a signal to mount.
"What he says is this," Mansoor explained, as he rode in the middle of the prisoners.

"We shall reach the wells by mid-day, and there will be a rest.

His own Moolah, a very good and learned man, will come to give you an hour of teaching.