My oath pressed heavily upon me, as I rode.

Even had it been but a slave girl whom you rescued, I should no less have admired your courage.

I myself am said to be brave, but it would never have entered my mind thus to risk my life for a stranger.

When I found that it was my wife who was saved, I still more bitterly regretted the oath that stood between me and her preserver, and truly glad am I that she has herself shown me how I can escape from its consequences.
"Now I see you, I wonder even more than before at what you have done; for indeed, in years, you are little more than a boy." "What I did, Emir, I believe any white officer who was a good swimmer would have done.

No Englishman would see a woman drowning without making an effort to save her, if he had it in his power.