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Rather than be offended by him; I had the urge to tease him。 Didn’t Black’s

belief in the disgraceful rumors about me simply prove he was also jealous of

me? He held the dagger without much confidence。

My  house  was  opposite  the  direction  we  were  heading  along  the  road

leading   away   from   the   coffeehouse。   We   tacked   right   and   left   down

neighborhood  streets  and  passed  through  empty  gardens  that  bore  the

depressing scent of damp and lonely trees as we traced a wide arc back toward

my  house。  We’d  covered  more  than  half  the  route;  when  Black  stopped  and

said:

“For  two  days;  Master  Osman  and  I  examined  the  masterpieces  of  the

legendary masters in the Treasury。”

Much later; nearly screaming; I said; “After a certain age; even if a painter

shares  a  worktable  with  Bihzad;  what  he  sees  may  please  his  eyes  and  bring

contentment  and  excitement  to  his  soul;  but  it  won’t  enhance  his  talent;

because one paints with the hand; not the eyes; and the hand at my age; let

alone at Master Osman’s; does not easily learn new things。”

Assured  my  beautiful  wife  was  waiting  for  me;  I  spoke  at  the  top  of  my

voice to let her know I wasn’t alone so she might hide herself from Black—not

that I took this pathetic dagger…wielding fool seriously。

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We passed through the courtyard gate;  and I thought I saw the light of a

lamp moving in the house; but thank God all was in darkness now。 It was such

a  merciless  rape  of  my  privacy  for  this  knife…wielding  beast  to  force  his  way

into  my  heavenly  home;  where  I  spent  my  days;  indeed  all  my  time;  seeking

out and painting Allah’s memories until my eyes tired—whereupon I’d make

love to my beloved; the most beautiful woman in the world—that I swore to

take revenge upon him。

Lowering the lamp; he examined my papers; a page I was in the midst of

pleting—condemned  prisoners  pleading  to  the  Sultan  to  be  relieved  of

their chains of debt and receiving His benevolence—my paints; my worktables;

my knives; my reed…cutting boards; my brushes; everything around my writing

table;  my  papers  again;  my  burnishing  stones;  my  penknives  and  the  spaces

between  my  pen  and  paper  boxes;  he  looked  in  cabis;  chests;  beneath

cushions; at one of my paper scissors; and beneath a soft red cushion and a

carpet  before  going  back;  bringing  the  lamp  closer  and  closer  to  each  object

and examining the same places once again。 As he said when he first drew his

weapon; he wouldn’t search my entire house; only my atelier。 Indeed; couldn’t

I conceal my wife—the only thing I wanted to hide—in the room from which

she was now spying on us?

“There’s a final picture that belonged to the book my Enishte was having

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