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The Cruelty Of A Father.
than my own son could be ; consider him as myself ; confide to him the management of all my business , and see him married directly to my daughter Meiahie . " Having wrote " this letter , she sealed it . Stepping afterwards into the room where she had left the young man : " You are mistaken , said she , the letter you gave me was for my mother ; I will the letter to
shew you to her apartment , " Young Kebal presented the mother , who having read it , and not doubting it was from her husband , executed the orders he had g iven her * and had the young man married to her daughter . In the mean time , Kebal , having settled all the business he had to transact , set out on his return to Bagdad . Nothing could equal alive
his astonishment , when , coming home , he found his son quite and joyous . His surprise was still greater when he learned that he was become his son-in-law . Ail these events appeared to him incredible ; but the ' fear of discovering his iniquities made him loth to have the affair cleared up to him ; he therefore thought it best to dissemble , and disguise , under the appearances of friendship , his
the mortal hatred he still bore his innocent son . Meiahie , daughter , was not the dupe of this deceitful tranquility . Her tenderness , alarmed for the safety of a dear husband , made her pry into every device and design of her father . _ . Kebal , Some time after his arrival , gave a sheep to his domestics * with several pitchers of wine . " Make merry , said he , this night * and celebrate my happy return into my country ; but I require of
you the doing me a gdod p iece of service . A secret enemy has a design on my life ; this nig ht I will inveigle him into my house ; about the fourth hour of the nig ht he will go down the stairs leading from my apartment ; as soon as ye hear him , stab him to death in the dark . " . . . At the fixed hour , Kebal desired his son to go into the yard where his domestics werej and to bring one of them to him . H &
was just going to step down the fatal stairs , when his wife , who had strong suspicion of something intended against him , stopped and beseeched him not to execute a commission in which she perceived some mystery ; and , so saying , pulled him along with her . In the mean time Kebal was agitated by a diversity of passions ; Half an hour was gone without his having any intelligence of the
Success of . his perfidy ; and , impatient to know in person if his domestics had gratified his revenge , as he passed down quickly , those who were charged to execute his orders , and who till then had heard no one stir , not doubting but it was . their victim , fell upon and massacred him in the dark . Such was the well-merited end of this barbarous fatherHeto whom he had given lifeand from
. , , whom he had several times attempted to rob Hfe , inherited all his substance . As his birth was a mystery to himself , he lived composed and tranquil with his wife , and never knew that she was his sister . The eastern historian concludes this narrative by an Arabian proverb : " He that a pit digs for his brother , falls himself into it ;" , , p
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The Cruelty Of A Father.
than my own son could be ; consider him as myself ; confide to him the management of all my business , and see him married directly to my daughter Meiahie . " Having wrote " this letter , she sealed it . Stepping afterwards into the room where she had left the young man : " You are mistaken , said she , the letter you gave me was for my mother ; I will the letter to
shew you to her apartment , " Young Kebal presented the mother , who having read it , and not doubting it was from her husband , executed the orders he had g iven her * and had the young man married to her daughter . In the mean time , Kebal , having settled all the business he had to transact , set out on his return to Bagdad . Nothing could equal alive
his astonishment , when , coming home , he found his son quite and joyous . His surprise was still greater when he learned that he was become his son-in-law . Ail these events appeared to him incredible ; but the ' fear of discovering his iniquities made him loth to have the affair cleared up to him ; he therefore thought it best to dissemble , and disguise , under the appearances of friendship , his
the mortal hatred he still bore his innocent son . Meiahie , daughter , was not the dupe of this deceitful tranquility . Her tenderness , alarmed for the safety of a dear husband , made her pry into every device and design of her father . _ . Kebal , Some time after his arrival , gave a sheep to his domestics * with several pitchers of wine . " Make merry , said he , this night * and celebrate my happy return into my country ; but I require of
you the doing me a gdod p iece of service . A secret enemy has a design on my life ; this nig ht I will inveigle him into my house ; about the fourth hour of the nig ht he will go down the stairs leading from my apartment ; as soon as ye hear him , stab him to death in the dark . " . . . At the fixed hour , Kebal desired his son to go into the yard where his domestics werej and to bring one of them to him . H &
was just going to step down the fatal stairs , when his wife , who had strong suspicion of something intended against him , stopped and beseeched him not to execute a commission in which she perceived some mystery ; and , so saying , pulled him along with her . In the mean time Kebal was agitated by a diversity of passions ; Half an hour was gone without his having any intelligence of the
Success of . his perfidy ; and , impatient to know in person if his domestics had gratified his revenge , as he passed down quickly , those who were charged to execute his orders , and who till then had heard no one stir , not doubting but it was . their victim , fell upon and massacred him in the dark . Such was the well-merited end of this barbarous fatherHeto whom he had given lifeand from
. , , whom he had several times attempted to rob Hfe , inherited all his substance . As his birth was a mystery to himself , he lived composed and tranquil with his wife , and never knew that she was his sister . The eastern historian concludes this narrative by an Arabian proverb : " He that a pit digs for his brother , falls himself into it ;" , , p