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and you will then be enabled to judge whether 

 [ am worthy of your favour, and deserve the 

 " preference to an adventurer.'* 



If this harangue had been addressed to a bey, it 

 would have been all over with me; there would 

 have been no punishment severe enough to have 

 expiated a pretended imposition, and my death 

 would have been inevitable. The infamous monk 

 well knew to what he exposed me ; but do the 

 feelings of humanity ever enter the bosoms of hy- 

 pocritical monks ? And what did it signify to him 

 whether I perished or not, provided he could pre- 

 serve his reputation, and continue at his ease, and 

 without a troublesome witness to the practice of 

 more serious deceptions r /i;«^z>"« discovered no mark 

 of displeasure, and the friar had not even the satis- 

 faction of knowing whether his scheme had pro- 

 duced the desired effect. I heartily rejoiced at the 

 service which he had unintentionally performed for 

 me, and I affected to be sensible of his attentions, 

 which he never lavished on me so plentifully as 

 after he had betrayed me. At length the Arabian 

 prince arrived; he encamped as usual without the 

 precincts of Neguade. I went to present myself 

 before him in his tent. He received me with marks 

 of distinction in the presence of the monk himself, 

 whom he left standing whilst he made me sit by 

 his side, as a token of the contempt he felt for a 



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