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usand times the worse, the more disgraceful for you. The heir of the Shamkhal pines for a Russian epaulette, and glories in being the dependent of a colonel!" "Moderate your words, Sultan Akhmet. To Verkhoffsky I owe more than life: the tie of friendship unites us." "Can there exist a holy tie between us and the Giaour? To injure them, to destroy them, when possible, to deceive them when this cannot be done, is the commandment of the Koran, and the duty of every true believer." "Khan! let us cease to play with the bones of Mahomet, and to menace others with what we do not believe. You are not a moolla, I am no fakir. I have my own notions of the duty of an honest man." "Really, Ammalat Bek? It were well, however, if you were to have this oftener in your heart than on your tongue. For the last time, allow me to ask you, will you hearken to the counsels of a friend whom you quitted for the Giaour? Will you remain with us for good?" "My life I would lay down for the happiness you so generously offer; but I have given my promise to return, and I will keep it." "Is this decided?" "Irrevocably so." "Well then, the sooner the better. I have learned to know you. _Me_ you know of old. Insincerity and flattery between us are in vain. I will not conceal from you, that I always wished to see you my son-in-law. I rejoiced that Seltanetta had pleased you; your captivity put off my plans for a time. Your long absence--the rumours of your conversion--grieved me. At length you appeared among us, and found every thing as before; but you did not bring to us your former heart. I hoped you would fall back into your former course; I was painfully mistaken. It is a pity; but there is nothing to be done. I do not wish to have for my son-in-law a servant of the Russians." "Akhmet Khan, I once"---- "Let me finish. Your agitated arrival, your ravings at the door of the sick Seltanetta, betrayed to every body your attachment, and our mutual intentions. Through all the mountains, you have been talked of as the affianced bridegroom of my daughter: but now the tie is broken, it is time to destroy the rumours; for the honour of my family--for the tranquillity of my daughter--you must leave us--and immediately. This is absolutely necessary and indispensable. Ammalat, we part friends, but here we will meet only as kinsmen, not otherwise. May Allah turn your heart, and restore you to us as an inseparable friend. Till then, farewell
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