" Call up thy strength, therefore, to the fight
in which thou art sure of conquest: do thou only that which is RIGHT,
and leave the event to Heaven.'
HAMET, in this conference with OMAR, having gradually recovered his
fortitude; and the time being now near, when he was to conduct ALMEIDA
to the court of the palace, where the marriage ceremony was to be
performed; they parted with mutual benedictions, each recommending the
other to the protection of the Most High.
At the appointed hour, the princes of the court being assembled, the
mufti and the imans being ready, and ALMORAN seated upon his throne;
HAMET and ALMEIDA came forward, and were placed one on the right hand,
and the other on the left. The mufti was then advancing, to hear and to
record the mutual promise which was to unite them; ALMORAN was
execrating the appearance of the Genius, as a delusive dream, in all the
tumults of anguish and despair; and HAMET began to hope, that the
suspicions of OMAR had been ill founded; when a stroke of thunder shook
the palace to its foundations, and a cloud rose from the ground, like a
thick smoke, between HAMET and ALMEIDA.
ALMORAN, who was inspired with new confidence and hope, by that which
had struck the rest of the assembly with terror, started from his seat
with an ardent and furious look; and at the same moment, a voice, that
issued from the cloud, pronounced with a loud but hollow tone,
'Fate has decreed, to ALMORAN, ALMEIDA.
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