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 have perceived that it is thou who seekest those which are in ignorance and savest those which are kept in error, so I pray thee now of whose report I heard and in whom I believed, Come to my assistance and save me from Charis's insolence, that his impurity have no power over me." And she put her hands (to her face), and ran away uncovered. And upon leaving she tore down the curtain of her chamber, put it around her, went to the nurse, and slept with her.

99. And Charis spent the whole night in sadness, striking his face with the hands. And he thought of going immediately to the king and to report to him of the power which surrounds him. But considering he said within himself, "If the great sadness which now fills my heart obliges me to go to the king, who will introduce me to him? For I know that, had not evil report thrown me down from my pride and vaunt and greatness and brought me into this smallness and separated my sister Mygdonia from me, I should not have come out at this time (of the night) even if the king stood at the door and give him an answer. But I shall wait till it is day. I know that the king will grant what I ask of him. And I will speak of the madness of the stranger, whose tyranny throws the great and illustrious into the abyss. For it pains me not that I am deprived of her intercourse, but I sorrow for her, because her noble soul has been humbled. She, a woman of comeliness, in which none of the servants has ever detected an unseemliness, ran uncovered