In Ad’ara SouqFORGIVE ME, NOBLE folk, gentle travelers, honored guests. You must not think, I implore you, that such coarse invective as I lately employed is exemplary of my ordinarily-amiable nature, but when I laid eyes upon your good selves being importuned by that swindler, that charlatan, that —aliil kadaab!—I felt I had no recourse but to speak, and so liberate you from his perfidious grasp, and you must understand that when one endeavors to drive away the misbegotten offspring of a flea-ridden jackal, one may be forced, regrettably, to descend to the speech of curs.
Come, come, come, please. As it is known, what is arriving is more excellent than what has gone, and so let us retire from such uncouth unpleasantness beneath the shade of my awning, and my solicitous wife shall fetch r
