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While ere still engaged in this conversation, a Moor ca that four Turks had leaped over the fence or wall of the

garden, and were gathering the fruit though it was not yet ripe The old

man was alarmed and Zoraida too, for the Moors commonly, and, so to

speak, instinctively have a dread of the Turks, but particularly of the

soldiers, who are so insolent and do to the Moors who are under

their power that they treat them worse than if they were their slaves

Her father said to Zoraida, "Daughter, retire into the house and shut

thyself in while I go and speak to these dogs; and thou, Christian, pick

thy herbs, and go in peace, and Allah bring thee safe to thy own

country"

I bowed, and he went away to look for the Turks, leaving me alone with

Zoraida, who made as if she were about to retire as her father bade her;

but theto me

with her eyes full of tears she said, "Ta, Christian, art thou going?"

I made answer, "Yes, lady, but not without thee, come what may: be on the

watch for me on the next Juma, and be not alaro to the land of the Christians"