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imperturbable amiability is vanquished. The only 

 legitimate expression of its wrongs which an insulted 

 stomach in a state of collapse possesses, is in that 

 hatred of one's species which one entertains under 

 such circumstances ; and it is almost a compensation 

 to feel the genial glow of a returning love to your 

 neighbours stealing over you, as the appetite becomes 

 gradually satisfied. Your whole moral nature is 

 elevated, until at last the very cook is forgiven, and 

 you love your enemy. 



It was long ere we were destined on this occasion 

 to experience this charming revulsion of sentiment. 

 While dinner was being prepared our host came and 

 talked to us. He was a fine old man, and had been 

 so severely wounded in a skirmish with the Russians 

 that he was deprived of the use of one leg. His 

 green turban indicated a pilgrimage to Mecca, but he 

 was by no means a bigoted Mussulman, to judge by 

 the disapprobation he expressed of the !Naib, who 

 owes his influence to his rigid fanaticism and the 

 affectation of superior sanctity. This old Bey evi- 

 dently had a most exalted opinion of the prowess of 

 the English. He had seen that nation whose power 

 was looked upon as so vast ; who had for so many 

 years expended thousands of men and millions of 

 roubles in the Circassian war ; who had established 

 a line of forts in his own valleys, in spite of the 

 most determined opposition, and under most adverse 

 circumstances; whose fleet had swept the sea and 



