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Amine appeared more calm than any, not excepting Philip; she surveyed the vessel as it slowly forced its way through; she beheld the seamen on board of her coolly leaning over her gunwale, as if deriding the destruction they had occasioned; she looked for Vanderdecken himself, and on the poop of the vessel, with his trumpet under his arm, she beheld the image of her Philip the same hardy, strong build the same features about the same age apparently there could be no doubt it was the doomed Vanderdecken!
It was about three months after this conversation that Amine and Philip were again seated upon the mossy bank which we have mentioned, and which had become their favourite resort. Father Mathias had contracted a great intimacy with Father Seysen, and the two priests were almost as inseparable as were Philip and Amine.
They looked upon Amine with admiration and respect, recovered their energies, and applied to their duties. The pumps were again worked; the storm abated during the night, and the vessel was, as Amine had predicted, saved. The crew and passengers looked upon her almost as a saint, and talked of her to Father Mathias, who was sadly perplexed.
Strange as it may appear, from the first day which put him in possession of his Amine, Philip had no longer brooded over his future destiny: occasionally it was recalled to his memory, but immediately rejected, and, for the time, forgotten.
Convinced that Amine would adhere to her resolution and requiring her for public execution, they abandoned the idea of the torture. "Do you confess?" inquired the Inquisitor. "No," replied Amine, firmly. "Then take her away." The night before the auto-da-fe, Father Mathias again entered the cell of Amine, but all his endeavours to convert her were useless.
The coolness of Amine, her beauty, perhaps, the unusual sight of a woman so young, calm and confiding, when all others were in despair, had its due effect upon the captain and sea men. Supposing her to be a Catholic, they imagined that she had had some warrant for her assertion, for credulity and superstition are close friends.
Before he arrived in this country he had been robbed of almost all, and has now been for these three years laying up again. We were but one year at Middleburgh, and from thence removed to this place. Such is the history of my life, Philip." "And does your father still hold the Mahomedan faith, Amine?" "I know not. I think he holds no faith whatever: at least he hath taught me none.
If answered in the affirmative, a rope was passed round their necks and twisted to the stake, so that they were strangled before the fire was kindled. All the other culprits had died in this manner; and the head executioner inquired of Father Mathias, whether Amine had a claim to so much mercy. The old priest answered not, but shook his head. The executioner turned away.
As yet the good man for good he really is has only led me into doubt." "Passing through doubt, you will arrive at conviction, Amine." "Perhaps so," replied Amine; "but it appears to me that I am as yet but on the outset of my journey. But come, Philip; let us return. You must to Amsterdam, and I will go with you.
No! they would respect no laws; and Amine has, in my opinion, been miraculously preserved from shame and ill-treatment, if not from death." "They durst not, surely! Well, but Krantz, we must make a raft and follow her; we must not remain here I will seek her through the wide world."
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