O mother mine, verily this Shaykh is soothfast and no liar: for the first time he but tried me and now he proposeth to perform his promise.

I got up feverish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, striving to collect my thoughts and tranquilize my feelings.

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike [translating desplaisent] me, as instruct me[…].