udden trance,' said he, 'has restored me to
myself; and from my wrongs where shalt thou be hidden?' This reproach
was more than she could sustain, but he caught her as she was falling,
and supported her in his arms. This incident renewed in a moment all the
tenderness of his love: while he beheld her distress, and pressed her by
the embrace that sustained her to his bosom, he forgot every injury
which he supposed she had done him; and perceived her recover with a
pleasure, that for a moment suspended the sense of his misfortunes.

Her first reflection was upon the snare, in which she had been taken;
and her first sensation was joy that she had escaped: she saw at once
the whole complication of events that had deceived and distressed her;
and nothing more was now necessary, than to explain them to HAMET;
which, however, she could not do, without discovering the insincerity of
her answers to the enquiries which he had made, while she mistook him
for his brother: 'If in my heart,' says she, 'thou hast found any
virtue, let it incline thee to pity the vice that is mingled with it: by
the vice I have been ensnared, but I have been delivered by the virtue.
ALMORAN, for now I know that it was not thee, ALMORAN, when he possessed
thy form, was with me: he prophaned thy love, by attempts to supplant my
virtue; I resisted his importunity, and escaped perdition; but the guilt
of ALMORAN drew my resentment upon HAMET. I thought the vices which,
under thy form, I discovered in his bosom, were thine; and in the
anguish of grief, indignation, and disappointment, my heart renounced
thee: yet, as I could not give thee up to death, I could not discover to
ALMORAN the attempt which I imputed to thee; when you questioned me,
therefore, as ALMORAN, I was betrayed to dissimulation, by the
tenderness which still melted my heart for HAMET.' 'I believe thee,'
said HAMET, catching her in a transport to his breast: 'I love thee for
thy virtue; and may the pure and exalted beings, who are superior to the
passions that now throb in my heart, forgive me, if I love thee also for
thy fault. Yet, let the danger to which it betrayed thee, teach us still
to walk in the strait path, and commit the keeping of our peace to the
Almighty; for he that wanders in the maze of falsehood, shall pass by
the good that he would meet, and shall meet the evil that he would shun.
I also was tempted; but I was strengthened to resist: if I had used the
power, which I deriv