Pillars of Light (2016)
“All that he had come to do there he had failed at. He had been so determined, this time, not to rise to his father’s bait, not to lose control, to put the case—so clear to any right-thinking person—coolly and rationally. He had planned to introduce the subject of moving the family back to Damascus gradually over the course of his visit, to let the idea take root in his father’s stubborn mind, then to shore it up with unassailable argument and soothing reason. But he had reckoned without Baltasa...r’s savage, wounded pride and contempt for the man Malek held highest in his esteem, the Commander of the Faithful, Salah ad-Din.
He should, he knew, have allowed Baltasar to voice his criticisms without reaction, as the sultan himself would have done. Faced with the bitter fury of the broken veteran, Salah ad-Din would have listened to what the old man said with that grave smile on his thin, intelligent face, his eyes pinned on the speaker, as if weighing every word. And then he would have nodded, conceded the validity of Baltasar’s opinion and quoted some apposite verse from the holy Qur’an that turned the attack aside.MoreLess
He should, he knew, have allowed Baltasar to voice his criticisms without reaction, as the sultan himself would have done. Faced with the bitter fury of the broken veteran, Salah ad-Din would have listened to what the old man said with that grave smile on his thin, intelligent face, his eyes pinned on the speaker, as if weighing every word. And then he would have nodded, conceded the validity of Baltasar’s opinion and quoted some apposite verse from the holy Qur’an that turned the attack aside.MoreLess
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