Exalt thyself, O Hakeem! save thou her!

Nuncio. And the accursed Republic will arrive

And find me in their toils—dead, very like,

Under their feet!

What way—not one way yet

To foil them? None? [Observing Djabal's face.]

What ails the Khalif? Ah,

That ghastly face! A way to foil them yet!

[To the Druses.] Look to your Khalif, Druses! Is that face

God Hakeem's? Where is triumph,—where is ... what