ticed or
neglected: here shall mine eye watch those evils, that were appointed
from everlasting to attend upon guilt: and here shall my voice warn thee
of their approach. From thy breast may they be averted by righteousness!
for without this, though all the worlds that roll above thee should, to
aid thee, unite all their power, that power can aid thee only to be
wretched.'

ALMORAN, in all the pride of gratified ambition, invested with dominion
that had no limits, and allied with powers that were more than mortal;
was overawed by this address, and his countenance grew pale. But the
next moment, disdaining to be thus controuled by the voice of a slave,
his cheeks were suffused with the blushes of indignation: he turned from
OMAR, in scorn, anger, and confusion, without reply; and OMAR departed
with the calm dignity of a benevolent and superior being, to whom the
smiles and frowns of terrestrial tyranny were alike indifferent, and in
whom abhorrence of the turpitude of vice was mingled with companion for
its folly.

CHAP. XII.

In the mean time, ALMEIDA, who had been conveyed to an apartment in
ALMORAN'S seraglio, and delivered to the care of those who attended upon
his women, suffered all that grief and terror could inflict upon a
generous, a tender, and a delicate mind; yet in this complicated
distress, her attention was principally fixed upon HAMET. The
disappointment of his hope, and the violation of his right, were the
chief objects of her regret and her fears, in all that had already
happened, and in all that was still to come; every insult that might be
offered to herself, she considered as an injury to him. Yet the
thoughts of all that he might suffer in her person, gave way to her
apprehensions of what might befall him in his own: in his situation,
every calamity that her imagination could conceive, was possible; her
thoughts were, therefore, bewildered amidst an endless variety of
dreadful images, which started up before them which way soever they were
turned; and it was impossible that she could gain any certain
intelligence of his fate, as the splendid prison in which she was now
confined, was surrounded by mutes and eunuchs, of whom nothing could be
learned, or in whole report no confidence could be placed.

While her mind was in this state of agitation and distress, she
perceived the door open, and the next moment ALMORAN entered the
apartment. When she saw him, she turned from him with a look o