Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-30

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ooh. many"
"One that you love thus ?"
mo, | have not"
Il fear you are deceiving me-"
"Holy Virgin what a man is this that
will not be satisfied with sincerity and
plain dealing"
NAY, Camilla, if you loved me-
"My good Pacha, you must not fatter
yourself into such supposition. What
title have you to my love ?"
Il will strive to deserve it. | will restore
your cousins to their liberty"
"For which | shall feel most grateful.
But it is not one compliance, or two, or
even twenty, that will entitlc a man to my
love-"
"Oh, that you would teach me how to
obtain it :" said Achmet passionately.
"Come, l will encourage you a little
you are behaving pretty well, at present.
Yesterday | detested your very name
to-day you are almost endurable; and if
you wish to leave an agreeable impression,
you will permit me to retire"
mo. cannot part with you, beautiful
Camilla; you shall stay and enchant me
with your presence"
81 shall do no such thing. If you force
me to remain against my will, shall say
very disobliging things, and then we shall
quarrel"
Go, them my Peri: but in your dreams
tonight, remember your adoring Achmet."
Il hope, if dream at all to be favored
with sweet vision of my native land,
and return in slumber to the fair hills Of
CASTLE"
rs your country, then, so dear to you!"
asked Achmct, mournfulv.
MY country 2" Said Camilla. her lovely
eyes suffusing with tears, as the thought of
home passed over her mind-"and shall |
never behold your orange groves again,
nor hear the rush of your mighty streams,
but die like transplanted flower in for
eign soil p
Such scenes as these were of daily re-
currence during the time that preparations
were making for the departure of Antonio
and Beatrice; sometimes they did not end
| SO peaceably.
alt is that am the slave would Ach-
met say, when the fair Spaniard made
him feel, too severely, the chains that bound
him--"the slave of your caprices, Camilla.
Would that had never seen you"
Surely, Achmet, that was my mistor-
tune, since | have not the slightest wish
to become the victim of the lawess traffic
in women that prevails in this disgusting
country"
"By Mshomet, you never open your lips
but with the design of saying something
veXatious. Till | saw you, was happy;
but you have made me the most miserable
of men. am wretchcd when absent from
you; and when am near you, your whole
study is to torment me"
! At other times Achmet would git in Ca
mlla's apartment, listening to her guitar
! his whole soul enranced IN the pleasure Of
hearing and seeing her One day when
he was thus occupied Beatrice and An
tonia, entered. to bid farewell, as all things
were ready for their departure.
When they offered their thanks to Ach-
met. he said. Your gratitude is due to
Camilla. who, when she might have used
her boundleSs influence over me to obtain
her own liberty, preferred making you
happy"
because my love for them prevailed over
every selfish consideration" said Camilla
with significant glance.
"Ah Camilla. / understand your al!usion.
Go; you are free. Return to Spain--that
beloved country which you prefer to
Achmet."
His voice faltered as he spoke-Camilla
looked up, their eyes met-they both burst
into tears.
"Ahr exclaimed Beatrice, ''you love one
another; wherefore, then should you part"
The Pacha threw himself at Camilla's
feet.
Light of my eyes, will you leave me y
"Achmet, cannot share a divided
heart"
Il swear to you, by Allah, that my ha-
rem shall be dismissed, and you shall be my
only wife,
"Ah, Achmet there is another thought"
said Camilla, weeping; you are follower
of the False Prophet, and am believer
in the only faith whereby we may have
eternal life"
Camilla, you speak dark things, and
hard to be understood; but only promise
to be mine and will hear you patiently
on these matters; and if convinced, will
not cling TO error
1t may be easily imagined, that Beatrice
and Antonia departed for Spain without
Camilla, who became AchmGt Pacha's
bride; and who, ere long, had the happi-
ness Of informing her cousins, by letter,
that he had become 4 secret, but decided
proselyte to Christianity.
The greatest pleasure Of life is love;
the greatest treasure. COntentment: the