four
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Honor '' -- `` Silence , Emir , and hear me . I have never been careless of your honor . When you set out for Italy , preparatory to the mission at Constantinople , you owed me duty , and there was no shame in the performance ; but now -- so have the changes wrought -- that which was honorable to Mirza the Emir is scandalous to Count Corti . After four o'clock you will owe me no duty ; neither will you be in my service . From that hour Mirza , my falcon , will cease to be . He will have vanished . Or if ever I know him more , it will be as Count Corti , Christian , stranger , and enemy . ''