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At seventeen years of age, Fakredeen was at the head of a powerful party, and had opened relations with the Divan. The Porte looked upon him with confidence, and although they intended, if possible, to govern Lebanon in future themselves, a young prince of a great house, and a young prince so perfectly free from all disagreeable antecedents, was not to be treated lightly.
It will have been observed, that to supply the partially disarmed tribes of the mountain with weapons was still, though at intervals, the great project of Fakredeen, and to obtain the result in his present destitution of resources involved him in endless stratagems.
The manner of Fakredeen had not pleased her this morning. His temper, was very uncertain, and, when crossed, he was deficient in delicacy. Indeed, he was too selfish, with all his sensibility and refined breeding, to be ever sufficiently considerate of the feelings of others. He was piqued also that he had not been informed of the previous acquaintance of Eva and Tancred.
'Would that I had; for then I could pay two hundred thousand piastres to that Egyptian camel, Scheriff Effendi, and he would give me up my muskets, which now, like a true son of Eblis, he obstinately retains. 'And this is your scrape, Fakredeen. And how much have you towards the sum?
'Oh! save him, Eva, save him! exclaimed Fakredeen, distractedly. She placed her finger on her lip. 'Or I shall die, continued Fakredeen; 'nor indeed have I any wish to live, if he depart from us. Eva conversed apart for a few minutes with Baroni, in a low voice, and then drawing aside the curtain of the tent, they entered.
How then could I tell you we were acquainted? or be aware that the stranger of my casual interview was this young Englishman whom you have made a captive? 'Hush! said Fakredeen, with an air of real or affected alarm. 'He is going to be my guest at my principal castle. What do you mean by captive? You mean whom I have saved from captivity, or am about to save?
'It is strange, said Fakredeen, 'but frequently as I have been at Aleppo and Antioch, I have never been in their country. I have always been warned against it, always kept from it, which indeed ought to have prompted my earliest efforts, when I was my own master, to make them a visit. But, I know not how it is, there are some prejudices that do stick to one.
'Royal lady! at length she said, 'I hastened, as you instructed me, at the appointed hour, to the Emir Fakredeen, but I learnt that he had quitted the castle. Then I repaired to the prisoner; but, woe is me! she is not to be found. 'Not to be found! 'The raiment that she wore is lying on the floor of her prison. Methinks she has fled.
She looked up; again she heard the sound, and then, in a whispered tone, her name 'Eva! 'I am here. 'Hush! said a figure, stealing into the caverned chamber, and then throwing off his Syrian cloak, revealing to her one whom she recognised. 'Fakredeen, she said, starting from her couch, 'what is all this?
The question now is, How are we to get out of this scrape? How are we to save your life? 'Do you really mean, Fakredeen, that my life is in peril? 'Yes, I do, said the Emir, crying like a child. 'You do not know the power of truth, Fakredeen. You have no confidence in it. Let me see the Queen. 'Impossible! he said, starting up, and looking very much alarmed. 'Why?
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