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    ^ iTeli ^ e , niy beloved , ( if you thick you ought to tell me ) , the cause of your sorrow . Mafty may be removed ; more may be mitigated ; all may be tteitakfeii ;"

    " I weep , " said the ingenuxhis * girl , « because I must love the lady no more , after all the kindness she has shown me . She was not contented with my loving her and Zuleima and you , but she was so inconsiderate as to think that an even

    number is as fortunate as an uneven one , and desired that loving her and Zuleima , I should also loVe you and Sheik Giovanni Batista . " « Very hard , indeed , not to be able to love her after all her

    kindness , " said Sidi Dahr . He spoke smilingly and looked upon her innocence with tenderness and compassion : but other thoughts and other feelings supervened . € i

    To what misery , " said he to himself , " might the perfidiousness of an ungrateful woman bring an unsuspicious girl . One word , one only escaped his lips audibly , the word

    kindness ! His eyes darted firebut he smiled to compose her agitation , and held her hand . She felt his vibrate , and said , looking up , " Did she not , O beloved of my heart ! make me the beloved of your ' s ? did she

    not teach me to speak the same language , and to sing , and to bring out voices more pleasureable than mine from ivory , and « boriy ; and wire ?" She had given her governess ad many reasons , most of

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    them founded on gratitude ( for those that were not so she did not give at all ) why she should love Sidi Dahr . But the

    governess gave as many reasons why she should love the governor ' s son , for whose sake she ought to remember that she had Christian blood in her veins , although her persuasion was Greek and schismatic . She

    felt somewhat gratified at the moment to discover that she had a persuasion , and to know what it was , but fell into tears at hearing Sidi Dahr ' s condemned . Her tears abated and her

    perplexity encreased on finding that the governess was the only one of the family whose faith was real and right , and she shuddered to learn , that the only one who was ungrateful and perfidious was the only

    one who , as matters now stood , could possibly enter eternal bliss ! She heard these doctrines for the first time , because it was stipulated by Sidi Dahr that none whatever should be

    introduced into his family ; and she would not have heard them now , had they not been employed as instruments of intimidation and seduction . The

    governess added another argument to prove that her lovely pupil was ordained by providence to marry a Christian , and herself to become one , first

    by baptism , then by confirmation , then by the sacrament of matrimony * Her sister bore an unbelieving name , but her ' s was Armina , and Sidi Dahr Himself had jj iveft it , in the blindness of his heart . Indeed .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/30/