And, sometimes"-- he cast a grateful glance at the sheik--"sometimes I borrow from others good of heart, like Ilderim the Generous--good and brave.

Let him say if I either denied or forgot you." Ben-Hur looked at the Arab.
"This is he, good Ilderim, this is he who told you of me ?" Ilderim's eyes twinkled as he nodded his answer.
"How, O my master," said Simonides, "may we without trial tell what a man is?
I knew you; I saw your father in you; but the kind of man you were I did not know.

There are people to whom fortune is a curse in disguise.

Were you of them?
I sent Malluch to find out for me, and in the service he was my eyes and ears.

Do not blame him.