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meé to be feen, or meddle in the affair. “1 affure you, Ayto 
Aylo,” faid J,“ 1 fhall ftricily obey you. There is no fort of 
reafon for my meddling in this affair with fuch affociates. 
‘If they can cure him by a miracle,l am fure it is the eafieft 
kind of cure of any, and will not do his conftitution the leaft 
harm afterwards, which is more than I will promife for me- 
dicines in general’; but, remember what I fay to you, it will, 
indeed, be a miracle, if both the father and the daughter are 
not dead before to-morrow night.” We feemed all of us 
fatisfied in one point, that it was better he fhould ae than 
F come to trouble by sae te 
Arrer the proceffion was gone, Aylo went to the Iteghé,,. 
and, I fuppofe, told her all that happened fince he had feen 
her laft. I was called in, and, as ufual, proftrated myfelf 
upon the ground. She received that token of refpe&t with- 
out offering to excufe or to decline it.. Aylo then faid, “ This 
is our gracious miftrefs, who always gives us her affiftance 
and protection. You may fafely fay before her whatever 
is in your heart.” | 
Our firft difcourfe was about Jerufalem, the Holy Sepul- 
chre, Calvary, the City of David, and the Mountain of Olives,. 
with the firuations of which the was perfectly well acquaint- 
ed. She then afked me to tell her truly if I was not a Frank? 
“Madam,” faid I, “if 1 was a Catholic, which you mean by 
Frank, there could be no greater folly than my concealing 
this from you in the beginning, after the aflurance Ayto 
Aylo has juft now given; and, in confirmation of the truth 
Tam now telling, (fhe had a large bible lying on the table 
before her, upon which I laid my hand), I declare to you, by 
all thofe truths contained. in this book, that my religion is. 
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