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© Juft the contrary, faid I, nobody has fo great a right over 
the Ras’s anger as I have, being the perfon injured ; and, as 
you and I can get accefs to Ozoro Efther when we pleafe, 
let us go immediately thither, and ftop the progrefs of this: 
affair. while it is not yet generally known. People that 
talk of my being wounded expect to fee me, I fuppofe, with- 
out a leg or an arm. When they fee me fo early riding 
in the ftreet, all will pafs for a flory as it fhould do 
Would you with to pardon himeentirely ?’——“ That goes a+ 
gainft my heart, too, fays Aylo, he is a bad man.”—“ My 
-good friend, faid I, be in this guided: by me, I know we 
both think the fame thing. If he is a bad man, he was a bad 
man before I knew him.. You know what you told me your- 
felf of the Ras’s jealoufy of him. What if he was to revenge 
_ his own wrongs, under pretence of giving me fatisfaction: 
for mine? Come, lofe no time, get upon your mule, go with 
me to Ozoro Either, I will anfwer for the confequences.” 
We arrived there; the Ras was not fitting in judgment, 
he had drank hardthe night before, on occafion of Powuf- 
fen’s marriage, and was not in bed when the ftory of the fray 
reached him. We found,Ozoro Efther in a violent anger 
and agitation, which was much alleviated by my laughing. . 
On her afking me about my wound, which had been repre- 
fented to her as dangerous, “I am afraid, faid I, poor Gue- 
bra Mafcal is worfe wounded than I.” “Is he wounded too ?: 
fays fhe ; 1 hope it isin his heart.” “ Indeed, replied I, Ma- 
dam, there are no. wounds on either fide. He was very 
drunk, and I gave him. feveral. blows upon the face as he 
deferved,.and he has. already got all the chaftifement he 
- ought to have; it was all a piece of folly.” “ Prodigious! 
fays fhe; is this fo?” “tis fo, fays Aylo, and you {halk 
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