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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. X.
myself miserably ever since, by giving medical advice to the
poor country people : I shall soon return, and all will be forgot-
ten. If I had not avenged myself, her own family, you know,
must have done so." And so this woman-murderer smoked on,
and continued talking in a low and gentle voice till the moon
was high; then he went his way, and I saw him no more.
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. X.
myself miserably ever since, by giving medical advice to the
poor country people : I shall soon return, and all will be forgot-
ten. If I had not avenged myself, her own family, you know,
must have done so." And so this woman-murderer smoked on,
and continued talking in a low and gentle voice till the moon
was high; then he went his way, and I saw him no more.