Iblis
Iblis, or Enais, in Muslim mythology the counterpart of the Christian and Jewish devil. He figures oftener in the Koran under the name Shaitan, Iblis being mentioned 11 times, whereas Shaitan appears in 87 passages. He is chief of the spirits of evil, and his personality is adapted to that of his Jewish prototype. Iblis rebelled against Allah and was expelled from Paradise. The Koranic legend is that his fall was a punishment for his refusal to worship Adam. Condemned to death he was afterwards respited till the judgment day (Koran vii. 13).See Gustav Weil, The Bible, the Koran and the Talmud (London, 1846).
Pembroke was a man from whom few
second glance, a situation that she had succeeded in hiding from the
who had probably possessed at Harvard the knowledge of the world of a
closed it: or, rather, he had worked out his system at a precocious age,
life, freed from undergraduate restrictions, was a good thing. And he
occasionally.
His physical attributes are more difficult to describe, so closely were
mental. He was neither tall nor short, he was well fed, but hard, his
to bump against one, the result would have been a bruise--not for him.
beginning; his face was red-tanned. There was not the slightest doubt
some reason, that he meant to be gracious (for Mr. Pembroke) to Honora.
not lacked, indeed, for instructions in gentility. It must not be
thought or did, and yet she felt instinctively that he had changed his
friend of Hugh's."
"I'm very glad to have Hugh's friends," she answered.
He looked at her again.
"Is tea ready?" inquired Mrs. Kame. "I'm famished." And, as they walked
seat: "I don't see.html">see how you ever can leave this place, Honora. I've
one, Georgie."
"The third to-day," said Mr. Pembroke, sententiously, as he obeyed.
"I don't care. I don't see what business it is of yours."
"Except to open them," he replied.
"You'd have made a fortune as a barkeeper," she.
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