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To these precepts of OMAR, HAMET listened as to the instructions of a
father; and having promised to keep them as the treasure of life, he
dismissed him from his presence. The heart of HAMET was now expanded
with the most pleasing expectations; but ALMORAN was pining with
solicitude, jealousy, and distrust: he took every opportunity to avoid
both OMAR and HAMET; but HAMET still retained his confidence, and OMAR
his suspicions.
CHAP. V.
In the mean time, the system of government was established which had
been proposed by OMAR, and in which HAMET concurred from principle, and
ALMORAN from policy. The views of ALMORAN terminated in the
gratification of his own appetites and passions; those of HAMET, in the
discharge of his duty: HAMET, therefore, was indefatigable in the
business of the state; and as his sense of honour, and his love of the
public, made this the employment of his choice, it was to him the
perpetual source of a generous and sublime felicity. ALMORAN also was
equally diligent, but from another motive: he was actuated, not by love
of the public, but by jealousy of his brother; he performed his task as
the drudge of necessity, with reluctance and ill will; so that to him it
produced pain and anxiety, weariness and impatience.
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