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Osmyn drew back trembling and confused; but having yet received no orders, he would have spoken, but ALMORAN drove him from his presence with menaces and execrations. The moment that Osmyn left him, his rage subsided in his fears, and his fears were mingled with remorse: 'Which way soever I turn, said he, 'I see myself surrounded by destruction.
ALMORAN, in that hasty flow of unbounded but capricious favour, which, in contracted minds, is the effect only of unexpected good fortune, raised Osmyn from his feet to his bosom: 'As in the trial, said he, 'thou hast been faithful, I now invest thee with a superior trust.
Thy peace has been destroyed alike by the defection of Osmyn, and by the zeal of Caled: thy life may yet be preserved; but it can be preserved only by a charm, which HAMET must apply. ALMORAN, who had raised his eyes, and conceived some languid hope, when he heard that he might yet live; cast them again down in despair, when he heard that he could receive life only from HAMET. 'From HAMET, said he, 'I have already taken the power to save me; I have, by thy counsel, given him the instrument of death, which, by thy counsel also, I urged him to use: he received it with joy, and he is now doubtless numbered with the dead. 'HAMET, said the Genius, 'is not dead; but from the fountain of virtue he drinks life and peace.
As he was returning from the gallery, he was met by Osmyn and Caled, who had heard the supernatural declaration in his behalf, and learned its effects.
'As I was but now, said he, 'changing the guard which is set upon HAMET, Osmyn came up to the door of the prison, and producing the royal signet demanded admittance.
Hast thou not the power to assume the form of whomsoever thou wouldst have sent? 'I would have sent Osmyn, said ALMORAN, 'but that I know him to be a traitor. 'Let the form of Osmyn then, said the Genius, 'be thine.
I am that slave; the slave of a tyrant whom I hate. The confusion of ALMORAN was now too great to be concealed, and he stood silent with rage, fear, and indignation. Osmyn, supposing that his wonder suspended his belief of what he had heard, confirmed his declaration by an oath.
As the command which I received, when he was delivered to my custody, was absolute, that no foot should enter, I doubted whether the token had not been obtained, by fraud, for some other purpose; yet, as he required admittance only, I complied: but that if any treachery had been contrived, I might detect it; and that no artifice might be practised to favour an escape; I waited myself at the door, and listening to their discourse I overheard the treason that I suspected. 'What then, said ALMORAN, 'didst thou hear? 'A part of what was said, replied Caled, 'escaped me: but I heard Osmyn, like a perfidious and presumptuous slave, call ALMORAN a tyrant; I heard him profess an inviolable friendship for HAMET, and assure him of deliverance.
When he came in, ALMORAN made no enquiry about HAMET, because he would not appear to expect the event, which yet he supposed he had brought about; he, therefore, asked him only upon what business he came. 'I come, my lord, said he, 'to apprize thee of the treachery of Osmyn. 'I know, said ALMORAN, 'that Osmyn is a traitor; but of what dost thou accuse him?
Like heaven, I will reign unseen; and like heaven, though unseen, I will be adored. Osmyn received this delegation of power with a tumultuous pleasure, that was expressed only by silence and confusion.
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