text:  His rapture was equally unbounded when Elnathan ushering them both into the apartment where I sat-- Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter thought"-- explained that finding me determined on my point he had adopted the old proverb--of bringing Mahomet to the mountain if he could not bring the mountain to Mahomet; had procured an order for their attendance in Paris through his influence with the chief of the police and now hoped to have the honour of their company at dinner