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ALMORAN AND HAMET.
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* it shall reiide, his image shal! be for ever present,
^ and to him brail my love be for ever true/ This
glowing declaration os her love for Hamet, was
immediately succeeded by a tender anxiety lor his la-
iety; and a sudden rehecfion upon the probability
of his death, and the danger of his situationifali*
^'e, threw her again into tears.
Almoran , whom the ardour and smpetuosity
of her palhons kept sometimes blent, and sbmetw
mcs threw into confuhon, again attempted to looth
and comfort her : Are often urged him to tell her
what was become os his brother , and he as often
evaded the quellion. As the was about to renew
her enquiry, and reslected that it had before been
osten made , and had not yet been aniwered, ihe
thought that Almoran had already put him to
death : this threw her into a new agonv , of which
he did not immediately discover the cauie ; but as
he soon learned it srom her reproaches and excla-
mations , he perceived that he could not hope to
be heard , while she was in douh'c about the late-
ly of Hamet. In order, therefore, to sooth her
mind, and prevent it's beinglongerpodeHed with
an image that excluded every other ; he assumed
a look of concern and allomshment at the impu-
tation os a crime, which was at once so horrid and
so unnecellary. After a solemn deprecation of
Inch enormous guilt, he oblH-ved , that as it was
now imposhble sor Hamet to succeed as his rival,
either in empire or in love, without the breach of
a command , which he knew his virtue would im-
plicitly obey ; he bad no motive either to delire Ins
death , or to restrain his liberty: 'His walk,'
lays he, ' i$ slili tmcircumscrihed in Periia; and
E $ * ex*
73
* it shall reiide, his image shal! be for ever present,
^ and to him brail my love be for ever true/ This
glowing declaration os her love for Hamet, was
immediately succeeded by a tender anxiety lor his la-
iety; and a sudden rehecfion upon the probability
of his death, and the danger of his situationifali*
^'e, threw her again into tears.
Almoran , whom the ardour and smpetuosity
of her palhons kept sometimes blent, and sbmetw
mcs threw into confuhon, again attempted to looth
and comfort her : Are often urged him to tell her
what was become os his brother , and he as often
evaded the quellion. As the was about to renew
her enquiry, and reslected that it had before been
osten made , and had not yet been aniwered, ihe
thought that Almoran had already put him to
death : this threw her into a new agonv , of which
he did not immediately discover the cauie ; but as
he soon learned it srom her reproaches and excla-
mations , he perceived that he could not hope to
be heard , while she was in douh'c about the late-
ly of Hamet. In order, therefore, to sooth her
mind, and prevent it's beinglongerpodeHed with
an image that excluded every other ; he assumed
a look of concern and allomshment at the impu-
tation os a crime, which was at once so horrid and
so unnecellary. After a solemn deprecation of
Inch enormous guilt, he oblH-ved , that as it was
now imposhble sor Hamet to succeed as his rival,
either in empire or in love, without the breach of
a command , which he knew his virtue would im-
plicitly obey ; he bad no motive either to delire Ins
death , or to restrain his liberty: 'His walk,'
lays he, ' i$ slili tmcircumscrihed in Periia; and
E $ * ex*