Ukleet

Ukleet was dumb, and Bhanavar asked to hear no more.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

The lamps being lit in the garden to the edges of the water, where they lay one evening, Ukleet, who had been in his briskest mood, became grave, and put his forefinger to the side of his nose and began, 'Hear ye aught of the great tidings?

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

When next Ukleet sat before them, Almeryl took occasion to speak of Boolp again, and said, 'This broker, O Ukleet, is he also a lender of money?'

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

Meantime she contrived to see Ukleet the porter frequently, and within a week of her engagement with the Vizier she gazed from a lattice-window of the harem, and beheld in the garden, by the beams of the moon, Ukleet, and he was looking as on the watch for her.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

And the broker, the old miser, obstinate as are the half-fuddled, began to mumble, 'I came not here to drink, O Ukleet, but to make a bargain; and my bags be here, and I like not yonder veil, nor the presence of yonder Vizier, nor the secresy of this.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

On the morning that followed Ukleet entered the cell, and with him three slaves, blacks, armed with scimitars.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

Ukleet replied, 'O my Prince, he is or he is not: 'tis of the maybes.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

Then she whirled with them round and round as a tempest whirls; and when she had wound them to a fury, lo, she burst from the hissing circle and dragged Ukleet from the vault into the passage, and blocked the entrance to the vault.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

To this little damsel Bhanavar gave her heart, and would listen all day, as in a trance, to her luting, till the desire to escape from that bondage and gather tidings of Almeryl mastered her, and she persuaded one of the blacks of the harem with a bribe to procure her an interview with the porter Ukleet.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

Little cared they, having each other, for the loneliness of their dwelling in that city, where they knew none save the porter Ukleet, who went about their commissions.

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868