principal aim, must be the surest recommendation to his favour. Let us,
then, hear others; but let us act ourselves.'

As ALMORAN now perceived, that the longer this conversation continued,
the more he should be embarrassed; he put an end to it, by appearing to
acquiesce in what HAMET had proposed. HAMET withdrew, charmed with the
candour and flexibility which he imagined he had discovered in his
brother; and not without some exultation in his own rhetoric, which, he
supposed had gained no inconsiderable victory. ALMORAN, in the mean
time, applauded himself for having thus far practised the arts of
dissimulation with success; fortified himself in the resolutions he had
before taken; and conceived new malevolence and jealousy against HAMET.




CHAP. IV.


While HAMET was exulting in his conquest, and his heart was overflowing
at once with self-complacency, and affection to his brother; he was
told, that OMAR was waiting without, and desired admittance. HAMET
ordered that he should be immediately introduced; and when OMAR entered,
and would have prostrated himself before him, he catched him in his arms
in a transport of affection and esteem; and having ordered that none
should interrupt them, compelled him to sit down on a sofa.

He then related, with all the joy of a youthful and an ardent mind, the
conversation he had had with ALMORAN, intermixed with expressions of
the highest praise and the most cordial esteem. OMAR was not without