 | 1799 - 612 pages
...life, and who is become my brother, should have recourse to another for assistance. Take this money : it is yours. If you refuse it, I shall think that...disdain a friend, because he is one of the people of «be desert*." What generosity of sentiment ! what greatness of mind ! Yet this very man would have... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1819 - 490 pages
...that a man with whom I have eaten, should apply to a dog of a Mameluk for assistance. Take this moneys if you refuse it, I shall think that you disdain a...friend because he is one of the people of the desert." That I might not offend my generous host, I took a few patakas, which he would not suffer me to count... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1819 - 488 pages
...that a man with whom I have eaten, should apply to a dog of a Mameluk for assistance. Take this money; if you refuse it, I shall think that you disdain a friend because he is one of the people of the desert.1' That I might not offend my generous host, I took a few patakas, which he would not suffer... | |
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I cannot bear that one, with whom I have eaten the repast of friendship, whom I have protected at the hazard of my life, and who is become my brother, should have recourse to another for assistance. Take this money : it is yours. If you refuse it, I shall... 