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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XV
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Mark me, I say once more.

I have studied at no Moorish college, and lack some of thy unbounded appetite for revenge, but yet I will have my share of vengeance.

Listen to me, mediciner, while I shall thus far unfold myself; but beware of treachery, for, powerful as thy fiend is, thou hast taken lessons from a meaner devil than mine.

Hearken--the master whom I have served through vice and virtue, with too much zeal for my own character, perhaps, but with unshaken fidelity to him--the very man, to soothe whose frantic folly I have incurred this irreparable loss, is, at the prayer of his doating father, about to sacrifice me, by turning me out of his favour, and leaving me at the mercy of the hypocritical relative with whom he seeks a precarious reconciliation at my expense.
If he perseveres in this most ungrateful purpose, thy fiercest Moors, were their complexion swarthy as the smoke of hell, shall blush to see their revenge outdone.

But I will give him one more chance for honour and safety before my wrath shall descend on him in unrelenting and unmitigated fury.


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