THE GUEBRE PRIEST. 
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with persons not members of their own tribe, re- 
tired from her immediate vicinity, at the same time 
showing her the most tender and delicate attention. 
She was evidently touched by the subdued courtesy 
of his manner; and while she offered him her ac- 
knowledgments for the generous interposition by 
which her life had been saved, there was a tremu- 
lous hesitation in her speech which showed that she 
said less than she felt. Observing this, he presumed 
that she was only deterred from inviting him to her 
home by the conventional restrictions of her tribe ; he 
therefore followed her at a respectful distance, until 
she reached her sepulchral habitation. 
Her father was not a little surprised to see her ac- 
companied by an Englishman ; but she soon made 
him acquainted with the cause, by stating, with elo- 
quent simplicity, the peril from which the young 
stranger had just rescued her. The father listened 
with anxious interest, and warmly recognised the de- 
liverer of his child, whom, in spite of his occasional 
harshness, he really loved with earnest affection, as 
one to whom he was bound by the strongest ties of 
gratitude. 
Inviting him into a part of the tomb to which his 
daughter had not access, Jumsajee entertained his 
guest with English wines and sherbet ; after which the 
latter related to him that he had been dismissed from 
the British army, for having challenged a superior 
officer ; that he had in consequence quitted the neigh- 
bourhood, in order to seek employment in the Mah- 
ratta service, being determined not to depart from 
India a disgraced man. 
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