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

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

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

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.