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 the other woman (meaning Louisa) might have consoled him for her loss, had not that "Christian dog" forced himself into her company, and contrived to get her away; for all which he never would forgive him, nor cease to pray that his prophet Mahomet might destroy him.

As for himself, he despised all threats, and laughed at their menaces, for they could not hurt him.

He was then told, "that he was to be conveyed to a prison, and that his trial would prove the innocence of Ferdinand, as Louisa could declare in his favour by an account of the circumstances of the preceding day, when he had insulted Count Wolfran, and Fatima voluntarily eloped with him."

This intelligence threw him into a violent rage: "I have lost my jewels, lost the woman I loved, another torn from me, am wounded, and insulted; to serve those Christian dogs I have suffered all this! and shall I have no revenge? Great Prophet, avenge