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There's not the smallest orbe which thou beholdst, / But in his motion like an Angell sings, / Still quiring to the young eide Cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortall soules, / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossely close in it, we cannot heare it.

[…] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.