ALMORAN, in the mean time, was slumbering away the effects of his
intemperance; and in the morning, when he was told what had happened, he
expressed no passion but curiosity: he went hastily into the garden;
but when he had gazed upon the ruins, and enquired how the fire began,
and what it had consumed, he thought of it no more.
But HAMET suffered nothing that regarded himself, to exclude others from
his attention: he went again to the ruins, not to gratify his curiosity,
but to see what might yet be done to alleviate the misery of the
sufferers, and secure for their use what had been preserved from the
flames. He found that no life had been lost, but that many persons had
been hurt; to these he sent the physicians of his own houshold: and
having rewarded those who had assisted them in their distress, not
forgetting even the soldiers who had only fulfilled his own orders, he
returned, and applied himself to dispatch the public business in the
chamber of council, with the same patient and diligent attention as if
nothing had happened. He had, indeed, ordered enquiry to be made after
ALMEIDA; and when he returned to his apartment, he found Abdallah
waiting to express his gratitude for the obligations he had received.
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