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 man both readily conforming to wear the German dress, though both persevered in their own tenets of religion, and the worship of the prophet Mahomet.

Heli now displayed a great many valuable jewels, worth five or six thousand pounds at least. How he had acquired them, he never thought proper to divulge; nor had they any right to inquire. He had sufficient to live on, in a moderate independence, and proposed retiring into the country, to reside free from observation. The gentlemen sent off letters to their friends immediately on their arrival, as they were very doubtful that their former ones had never gone forward from Adrianople. They purposed waiting on the Emperor, and as there was now no occasion for their active services, to obtain his permission for returning into Suabia.

The morning following, after all their clothes were brought home, Heli entered their apartment, and asked leave to introduce his Fatima in her proper habit. They readily accorded to his request, being desi-