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    lacings , and her shoulders were bared to the waist .

    At the signal of the ebonystaff , Signor Giovanni Battista flogged so heartily for mercy , that he sowed the ripe wheatfield of the governess with red poppies , as Sidi Dahr expressed it . The blood trickled from

    snore than one quarter ; and that portion of it which had the shortest way to run tinged the border of her stockings . At sight of this the heart of Sidi Dahr relented ; and after she had received on the whole

    eight or nine strokes , the bandage was removed from her interesting features . " Am I to suffer any more ? " cried she . ' * No , lady , " he replied : on which she , knowing that he never violated a promise , cried aloud , —

    * ' Barbarous brute ! Heathen ! Turk ! As sure as I am alive , I am dead as a crucifix ! He has ripped my clothes to tatters ! I shall never show my face again !"

    " Dear lady , " said Sidi , tenderly , " has that too suffered ? ' She did not heed him , but proceeded : " Was ever honest woman—O Christ ! my white satin shoes ! worn but twice

    before . O distraction ! A sea of ffore ! A spot , oh Jesu Marial half as big as a crazia / " * He invited her to be seated , land to be comforted . She ishewed as little inclination for

    ithe one as for the other , when Sidi added , " you shall expeirience the truth of a Turkish

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    proverb , that pleasure is sweetest after pain , " and lie presented to her the second rod . She looked as alert as a greyhound in the slip , when the

    thong of the old courser is suspended over the hare in her form . But he , as if negligent and indifferent , picked up the cypress-cones from the floor ,

    and said , " I regret that they are too green for planting They have done more justice than has been done for twenty years in this country , and should rise in sacred groves . "

    The governess , who had ventured to rest a portion of her fatigue , sitting upright upon the extremity of an old backed chair , lept up with the alacrity of a

    parlour kitten at a dangling cord , and belaboured Signor Giovanni Battista with such equitable reciprocity , that she was nearer fainting with exertion than she before had been with

    pain . At the very first stroke his teeth severed the box-wood gag , to the admiration and astonishment of Sidi Dahr , who cried , 6 < What teeth the dog has ! They would have cracked the citadel of Ancona ! " This

    exclamation , and Signor Giovanni Battista's , dove-tailed into each other ; but Signor Giovanni Battista ' s was the loudest .

    " Oh , for the love of Christ Good Signor Sidi Dahr ! Jesu Maria ! Flesh and blood sink under it ! Oh this Pontius Pilate ! This Herod ! This Murderer of the Innocents I My

    • A small coin , of copper and silver mixed , which , when it happens to be nearly ( circular , and not very ragged , is about the' flize of a sixpence . —ewt . m , R .

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    106 High and Lota Life in Italy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/34/