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2lS TRAVELS IN UI'PER
" and you will then be enabled to judge whether
" lam worthy of your favour, and deserve the
" preference to an adventurer."
If this harangue had been addressed to a bey, it
would have been all over with me; there would
hare been no punishment severe enough to have
expiated a pretended imposition, and my death
would have been inevitable. The infamous monk
well knew to what he exposed me; but do the
feelings of humanity ever enter the bosoms of hy-
pocritical monks ? And what did it signify to him
whether I perished or not, provided he could pre-
serve his reputation, and continue at his ease, and
without a troublesome witness to the practice of
more serious deceptions ? Isma'iu discovered no mark
of displeasure, and the friar had not even the satis-
faction of knowing whether his scheme had pro-
duced the desired effect. I heartily rejoiced at the
service which he had unintentionally performed for
me, and I affected to be sensible of his attentions,
which he never lavished on me so plentifully as
after he had betrayed me. At length the Arabian
prince arrived; he encamped as usual without the
precincts of Neguade. I went to present myself
before him in his tent. He received me with marks
of distinction in the presence of the monk himself,
whom he left standing whilst be made me sit by
his side, as a token of the contempt he felt for a
vile
" and you will then be enabled to judge whether
" lam worthy of your favour, and deserve the
" preference to an adventurer."
If this harangue had been addressed to a bey, it
would have been all over with me; there would
hare been no punishment severe enough to have
expiated a pretended imposition, and my death
would have been inevitable. The infamous monk
well knew to what he exposed me; but do the
feelings of humanity ever enter the bosoms of hy-
pocritical monks ? And what did it signify to him
whether I perished or not, provided he could pre-
serve his reputation, and continue at his ease, and
without a troublesome witness to the practice of
more serious deceptions ? Isma'iu discovered no mark
of displeasure, and the friar had not even the satis-
faction of knowing whether his scheme had pro-
duced the desired effect. I heartily rejoiced at the
service which he had unintentionally performed for
me, and I affected to be sensible of his attentions,
which he never lavished on me so plentifully as
after he had betrayed me. At length the Arabian
prince arrived; he encamped as usual without the
precincts of Neguade. I went to present myself
before him in his tent. He received me with marks
of distinction in the presence of the monk himself,
whom he left standing whilst be made me sit by
his side, as a token of the contempt he felt for a
vile