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Hassan And Zoolma;
rate estate , which yielded him an income sufficient to maintain himself in ease and comfort . Like many other of his village , with whom indeed he claimed distant kindred , he was descended from highly respectable ancestors , and looked upon his own pure blood with considerable complacence . However inconvenient it may be for a man to be one of man y brothers and sisters ( for in the Mussulman law a sister inherits as well as a brotherthough onlin the proportion of one-half ) and to succeed
, y , to a share only of a patrimony , instead of the whole , fathers think little of these things , and generally esteem it a matter of great lamentation , when they find their stock of offspring limited , and the inheritance of their name , fame , and fortune confined to one slender branch . Thus it was with Shaik Azim ; he continually cursed his unlucky stars that he had but one son , quite forgetting in his ingratitude , that his destiny might have led him to have none at all , and then name and fame would have
perished for ever . This great evil , however , induced him to seek a remedy in the hazardous experiment of a second marriage . And here let not our readers start with horror at the deliberate villainy of Shaik Azim , nor anticipate for him the horrors of a trial for bi gamy , and transportation for fourteen years . He did but that which the laws of the blessed Prophet ( we must we suppose still call him so in compliance with custom ) allowed him ; nayhe miht indeed ( as
lish-, g may any Eng man , so they say under Mr . Macauley ' s new code ) have added two more wives to the number , and nevertheless have not travelled out of the records of orthodoxy . The consequence of the execution of . Azim ' s new plan , was anything but consolatory to him . He did not succeed in his wishes , for his family was blessed with no increase . One thing ,
however , was effected ; he rendered , as is usual in such cases , ( and which thus operates more than any positive enactment could do to prevent polygamy ) , his own home a scene of discord and discomfort , which was brought about by the unceasing quarrels of his two wives . As A zim was now pretty certain that fate had set her face against the increase of his progeny , that there were no more arrows in his quiver , and that , shake it as he might , not one other would be found therein , he very wisel
y turned from his disconsolate home to look for pleasure , where he should long ago have sought it—his son , the little Hassan . The lad gave early promise of both virtue and talent , and was indeed formed to be the delight of his father and all around him . Long before Hassan had grown to the early age in which eastern marriages are contracted , Azim had often cast about in his mind the project of an alliance for his son , by which his own consequence miht be enhanced and narrowl
g ; y did he scan the families in his neighbourhood to which he purposed extending the honour of his connexion . As the lad , however , grew up , the father was grieved to see that he felt no interest in these speculations , and listened to them with an inattentive ear . As time further progressed , this listlessness appeared to be exchanged for positive aversion to all alliances whatever , until at last Azim began to suspect that some spell had been cast over his sonand that an evil had lanced on
, eye g him . On the occurrence of this idea , Azim had recourse to all the neighbouring moollahs who were celebrated for the skill of their charms , by which indeed they drew much money from the pockets of their dupes ; he likewise offered up prayers at several musjids , and begged the intercession of reputed holy men , and their acceptance of sundry offerings , which were a sine qua non to the efficacy of the first . Sad to say , nevertheless , all these measures were of no use , Hassan still re-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hassan And Zoolma;
rate estate , which yielded him an income sufficient to maintain himself in ease and comfort . Like many other of his village , with whom indeed he claimed distant kindred , he was descended from highly respectable ancestors , and looked upon his own pure blood with considerable complacence . However inconvenient it may be for a man to be one of man y brothers and sisters ( for in the Mussulman law a sister inherits as well as a brotherthough onlin the proportion of one-half ) and to succeed
, y , to a share only of a patrimony , instead of the whole , fathers think little of these things , and generally esteem it a matter of great lamentation , when they find their stock of offspring limited , and the inheritance of their name , fame , and fortune confined to one slender branch . Thus it was with Shaik Azim ; he continually cursed his unlucky stars that he had but one son , quite forgetting in his ingratitude , that his destiny might have led him to have none at all , and then name and fame would have
perished for ever . This great evil , however , induced him to seek a remedy in the hazardous experiment of a second marriage . And here let not our readers start with horror at the deliberate villainy of Shaik Azim , nor anticipate for him the horrors of a trial for bi gamy , and transportation for fourteen years . He did but that which the laws of the blessed Prophet ( we must we suppose still call him so in compliance with custom ) allowed him ; nayhe miht indeed ( as
lish-, g may any Eng man , so they say under Mr . Macauley ' s new code ) have added two more wives to the number , and nevertheless have not travelled out of the records of orthodoxy . The consequence of the execution of . Azim ' s new plan , was anything but consolatory to him . He did not succeed in his wishes , for his family was blessed with no increase . One thing ,
however , was effected ; he rendered , as is usual in such cases , ( and which thus operates more than any positive enactment could do to prevent polygamy ) , his own home a scene of discord and discomfort , which was brought about by the unceasing quarrels of his two wives . As A zim was now pretty certain that fate had set her face against the increase of his progeny , that there were no more arrows in his quiver , and that , shake it as he might , not one other would be found therein , he very wisel
y turned from his disconsolate home to look for pleasure , where he should long ago have sought it—his son , the little Hassan . The lad gave early promise of both virtue and talent , and was indeed formed to be the delight of his father and all around him . Long before Hassan had grown to the early age in which eastern marriages are contracted , Azim had often cast about in his mind the project of an alliance for his son , by which his own consequence miht be enhanced and narrowl
g ; y did he scan the families in his neighbourhood to which he purposed extending the honour of his connexion . As the lad , however , grew up , the father was grieved to see that he felt no interest in these speculations , and listened to them with an inattentive ear . As time further progressed , this listlessness appeared to be exchanged for positive aversion to all alliances whatever , until at last Azim began to suspect that some spell had been cast over his sonand that an evil had lanced on
, eye g him . On the occurrence of this idea , Azim had recourse to all the neighbouring moollahs who were celebrated for the skill of their charms , by which indeed they drew much money from the pockets of their dupes ; he likewise offered up prayers at several musjids , and begged the intercession of reputed holy men , and their acceptance of sundry offerings , which were a sine qua non to the efficacy of the first . Sad to say , nevertheless , all these measures were of no use , Hassan still re-