Kismet Page #2

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- Come and have some wine.

- Thanks, I will.

Hey, Prince...

Don't expect the truth from anyone here.

They're charming people.

They don't bother with it.

Charming people? They look like

a bunch of

back alley merchants

and cutthroats to me.

To you? My friend,

they are all nobility.

I don't recognize any of them.

How should a young elephant like you

recognize nobility?

I go to all the parades.

Excellency, I have a place for you.

Salam, ladies.

I won't tell you their names but

they're all queens in disguise.

Magic black eyes.

Take one look and turn away.

They're dangerous.

Don't worry. He told me I was

the only girl in Baghdad.

So you are, my blossom.

Hardy young antelope I've fell in with.

What draggle tail part of the city

do you come from?

Mind if I choose for myself?

Save me Laeida?

She is not in yet.

Drink some wine.

In a few minutes, you'll see

a young beauty worth fighting for.

I hope I can agree with you.

Agree with me?

- The insolence.

- I'm sorry.

My friend, if she weren't

a lovely sight to behold,

she wouldn't be coming here

for an evening with me.

Oh? Well, might I ask just who you are?

Keep it to yourself.

One of the princes of the empire.

I sit in the counsels of the caliph.

Oh.

You do?

Then you know the new caliph.

Tell me, what's he like?

The new caliph is a yahoo.

A yahoo?

His father left him a score

of lovely ladies.

And what does the young gander do?

He turns them loose.

Bah!

Heart of a king should be big enough

for all the women in the world.

If a king can't act like a king,

he's a yahoo.

He doesn't tell you what to do

about the ladies, does he?

My friend,

No one has to tell me what to do

with the ladies.

You're sitting with the master.

Oh, magic.

And very handy in case of trouble.

You must see this.

I have secured a new meeting place -

a tower by the river.

Come at once.

Hassan will guide you.

Jamilla

Bad news?

On the contrary. It's from a queen.

I haven't seen her for...Oh, it's been

much too long.

What about Lady Laeida?

Oh, she's late.

You'll have to take what's left.

She might even like you.

Thank you.

Farewell, my friend.

Say to the Lady Laeida,

urgent matters call me.

Why didn't you wait for Laeida?

I have a rendezvous of my own.

Does the master approve?

Is she beautiful?

- The sweetest girl in Baghdad.

- Magnificent. Where?

In a boat tied up to a cypress tree.

Boat, romance in a bouncing boat.

Go away. Spoil the night

for someone else.

Never let tomorrow break the spell.

And when autumn breezes hear our sighs,

may our lips never say fare thee well.

Keep him near,

never far.

Never leave,

evening star.

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