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to my own resources, which would simply 

 end in my ruin. 



I lay down to think over this subject, 

 and the more I meditated upon it, the 

 more perplexing it seemed ; to be travelling 

 about the country with some one's sister 

 or wife was a grave addition to my offence 

 of being still alive in their country, after 

 the decrees they had issued concerning 

 my death. I now observed that the sun 

 was rapidly sinking in the horizon, and, 

 as I knew now the sex of my faithful 

 guide, I resolved to spare her the respon- 

 sibility as much as possible, for I observed 

 she shrank from it whenever she could. 

 I did not at all fancy being in the plain 

 when night fell ; it would be an invitation 

 to the tigers to make their late dinner off 

 us, and, for my part, I did not like the 

 idea of being snapped up like a young 



