'
HAMET, whose fortitude and recollection were again overborne, was thrown
into an agitation of mind, which discovered itself by looks and gestures
very different from those which ALMEIDA had expected, and overwhelmed
her with new confusion and disappointment: that he, who had so lately
solicited her love with all the vehemence of a desire impatient to be
gratified, should now receive a declaration that she was ready to
comply with marks of distress and anger, was a mystery which she could
not solve. In the mean time, the struggle in his breast became every
moment more violent: 'Where then,' said he, 'is the constancy which you
vowed to HAMET; and for what instance of his love is he now forsaken?'
ALMEIDA was now more embarrassed than before; she felt all the force of
the reproof, supposing it to have been given by ALMORAN; and she could
be justified only by relating the particular, which at the expence of
her sincerity she had determined to conceal. ALMORAN was now exalted in
her opinion, while his form was animated by the spirit of HAMET; as much
as HAMET had been degraded, while his form was animated by the spirit
of ALMORAN. In his resentment of her perfidy to his rival, though it
favoured his fondest and most ardent wishes, there was an abhorrence of
vice, and a generosity of mind, which she supposed to have been
incompatible with his character.
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